hi phillip, On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:38:59PM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > What is consideres best practice when a package uses a SQL database > (mysql, postgresql) and needs to create its own catalog and/or tables?
this is a very good question, which has not been conclusively answered
and is still the subject of debate. there have been a few threads about
it, but i don't imagine anything solid will come from them while
everyone's still focused on sarge.
> [ ] Disable the package until someone has manually setup the database?
> [ ] Ask a lot of questions via debconf and try to setup in postconf?
i'd suggest the latter if it's not too complicated. a few things to
keep in mind though:
- ask if they want to delete the database on purge
- make a backup of the database during upgrades, "Just In Case"
- don't store the pw in debconf, or at least ask the admin first
if you think that it would be too complicated/flaky, i'd add a debconf
note (of _low_ priority!) and put something in README.Debian.
sean
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