On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:45:26PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:19:07PM +0200, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:38:59PM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > What is consideres best practice when a package uses a SQL database > > > (mysql, postgresql) and needs to create its own catalog and/or tables? > > > > > > [ ] Disable the package until someone has manually setup the database? > > > [ ] Ask a lot of questions via debconf and try to setup in postconf? > > I'd go for the second option. > > > [snip] > > > > Setting up a database is somewhat errorprune but still something > > achievable in a postinst script. > > Methinks we need something like wwwconfig-common, but for databases... wwwconfig-common does most of what needs to be done for setting up a database. What are you missing? Uwe -- MMK GmbH, Universitaetsstr. 11, 58097 Hagen Uwe.Steinmann@mmk-hagen.de Tel: +2331 840446 Fax: +2331 843920
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