Bug#138217: additional info
On 19 Mar 2002, Rens Houben wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 11:32, Peter Gervai wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:06:57PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > >
> > > reassign 138217 trafstats
> > > thanks
> > >
>
> Noted, fixed, and duploaded. Thanks for the reminder.
>
> This was a leftover artifact from one half-hearted attempt at automating
> the database creation upon install -- I'd have to be able to guarantee
> that postgresql is installed and running before I'd be able to issue
> CREATE TABLE statements to psql -- which petered off when I figured out
> that once I'd finished the config file code I could safely support
> remote databases, which'd change what I'd need to do, and... etc, etc.
If you Depend on another package, then the other package is gauranteed to be
installed and configured before your package is configured.
You only need a PreDepends if you need the other package during a preinst.
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