Re: tango package

[Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+dmsqtp@quoininc.com>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:38:25PM +0200, picca wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:25:13 +0200
> PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel <frederic-emmanuel.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr>
> wrote:
> 
> > Dear mentors,
> > 
> > I am looking for a feedback on my tango package, it is not yet
> > finished but as it use a mysql database and this is my second
> > package, I asked here for critical views on it. It builds 2 libraries
> > liblog4tango4 ans libtango5 and tango-db install the tango-ds service.

> > It builds these binary packages:
> > liblog4tango4 - C++ library for tango logging (runtime)
> > liblog4tango4-dev - C++ library for tango logging (runtime)
> > libtango5  - C++ library of the TANGO distributed control system
> > (runtime) libtango5-dev - C++ library of the TANGO distributed
> > control system tango-db   - The Tango Database device

> > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tango

> I need a working Mysql server to install the tango-db package.
> 
> Must I put a pre-dep on mysql ?
Probably not the right solution.

Pre-dependencies should be rare.

Also you should support the general case where the SQL server is on a
remote host (not local).

Justin