On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 03:18:52PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 06:59:50 +0200, Christian Perrier > <bubulle@debian.org> wrote: > >Could *please* maintainers of packages interacting with RDBMS > >establish a set of *common* debconf templates for prompting users ? > > > >-Database user > >-Password for this user > >-Database administrator username > >-Database administrator password > >-Database name > >-Should the database be purge on package purge? > > Do we have infrastructure to handle different answers for the same > question? Maybe I'd like to have a different dbadmin password on my > postgresql database than on mysql? or more likely, a different username/password for each different *sql program. i think debconf could be tricked into using one template for prompting the user and feeding the answer into another one. however, as time goes on i'm thinking that this could be better done with a debhelper like application, which would be better for all the postinst/etc stuff anyway. sean --
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