On Sunday 24 February 2008 21.24:21 Jacek Konieczny wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:02:59PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > I think you should add a new configure option: > > > > --with-dbi-driver=xxx > > > > this will be a bit complicated, because you will need to check if xxx is > > one of our supported databases, then find the path to the program so that > > it can be properly put into the scripts so that the tables will be > > created. You need to set two variables for substitution: > > > > SQL_BINDIR points to directory where binary program resides > > DB_TYPE the name of the binary program (e.g. pgres, mysql, > > ...) > > > > Once you have defined those two substitution variables in configure.in, > > everything should work correctly. > > But then we loose part the flexibility which dbi gives us otherwise. I > always hated that database backend of bacula was configured > compile-time.
We are not configuring anything into Bacula at compile time. Our discussion involves how to get the right scripts setup so that the user can setup his database without a lot of manual intervention. These steps are not required to run the program, just useful for autoconfiguring it. > This way it was impossible to create generic binary > packages with Bacula. So in the PLD (Linux distribution I make some > packages for) we provide binary bacula packages with sqlite support (the > worst backend, but with the least extra requirements like a server set up) > and if anyone wanted something else he had to compile the packages manually > with special options. > > So, I was very happy when read about the DBI support. That would solve > the last Bacula problem bothering me. But the suggestion above would > break the thing again. > > IMHO it should be possible to compile Bacula in a such way so it could > work with any database, depending only on the runtime configuration and, > maybe, simple manual database setup (calling the right scripts to > initialize the database). This is exactly what we are talking about. How to try to do the "manual" database setup as automatically as possible. > > I am sure that many Linux distribution will include usable Bacula > packages (not limited to single database engine like sqlite or mysql) > when multiple database support in Bacula will be ready. > > Greets, > Jacek > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
