On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:19:07PM +0200, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:38:59PM +0200, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > > Hello! > > > > What is consideres best practice when a package uses a SQL database > > (mysql, postgresql) and needs to create its own catalog and/or tables? > > > > [ ] 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 go for the second option. > [snip] > > Setting up a database is somewhat errorprune but still something > achievable in a postinst script.
Methinks we need something like wwwconfig-common, but for databases... regards Andrew
