Re: Minutes from the DebConf5 BOF?
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Andrew McMillan wrote:
| Remote Database Packages
| ========================
| We want the database package maintainers to create “remote-” packages
| allowing specification of remote database, user and host information so
| that we can also attempt automatic upgrades of databases that are
| remote, as well as for local ones.
|
| Web Applications should depend on dbconfig-common as well as depending
| on (local-database-version | remote-database-version).
|
|
| Local Administration
| ====================
| If the local admin decides to use the remote-... package, the
| information is requested through debconf for the remote database. The
| next web application that chooses a remote host could choose to use the
| existing details, or could choose to configure a new
Martin Langhoff & I had unofficially volunteered to do some work on this
front (remote-* packages) when we got home (just arrived home a few
hours ago) -- obviously the first step is to ping the various db package
maintainers to get their input. One or both of us will try and write up
a little bit what we plan to do and send it to the relevant people
(including this list) for discussion shortly.
Cheers
Penny
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