OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du mardi 20 mai 2008, vers
15:18, Sylvain Garcia <sylvain.garcia@aliasource.fr> disait:
>> When upgrading packages, it is customary to be able to upgrade
>> conffiles. You use an alternate mechanism that install configuration
>> files only on first install. This is broken: you should use ucf
>> instead. The user will be proposed with an upgrade path. If the
>> configuration files are not generated, just ship them as conffiles.
> I had update new release of obm pacakge on mentors repo. obm 2.1.9-3 now
> use ucf to conffile :-)
Hi Sylvain!
I am still very uncomfortable with obm-conf package. You should let
debconf handle any reconfiguration/first configuration stuff. It won't
ask questions twice if not needed.
Moreover, this package configure will ask again questions about mysql
database configuration while dbconfig-common has already asked the same
questions. A typical user installing the packages on the same host won't
even be able to answer all questions since dbconfig-common will
autogenerate the password for him.
It is a personal opinion, but I would prefer that database configuration
is generated by obm-storage package and that the user copy by hand the
resulting file to another host if he wants a multi-host
configuration. This will strip down complexity of the package, lower the
number of debconf questions (and the needed translations).
And I still fail to see why obm-storage is a separate package. Its only
aim is to configure a database. If your concern is to be able to use a
remote database, dbconfig-common just handle that.
obm-ui is an almost empty package. It just configures apache?
I may just fail to see how OBM is componentized, but I only see one
useful package: obm-core. If you install obm-ui on another host, it
won't have any file to serve. If you install obm-storage on another
host, you could just install it on the host with obm-core since
dbconfig-common is able to configure a remote database and it would save
the build of another configuration file.
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