On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 07:44:41AM +0100, Sébastien Jodogne wrote: > Another point of attention is the following: Orthanc-PG > does not necessarily requires PG to be running on the > localhost (the PG server could be elsewhere).
Aaah, true enough, there you said it all: Not even the presence of an orthanc-PG pacakge on a given machine means that the user wants (or needs) to run PG on that machine. There is no way to sensibly enforce make sure PG is started before Orthanc if and only if Orthanc is configured to connnect to PG _and_ connect to a _local_ PG database The only way to usefully communicate that state is ... > If Orthanc is configured for PG but PG is not started, > Orthanc will stop, will *not* fallback to sqlite [, ...] ... and will loudly and clearly complain: you have configured Orthanc to connect to PG with $PG_CONN_STRING but I cannot connect with those parameters, here is what libpq had to say: $LIBPQ_ERROR_MESSAGE (if any) So, all in all the only useful purpose an orthanc-PG package might serve is to Depends: on postgresql-*client* thereby ensuring libpq is installed :-) thereby freeing the orthanc(-core) package from that Depends:. There could be another use: orthanc-pg could provide a working PG plugin configuration to orthanc(-core) -- which then only needs setting of connection parameters -- but that would require you to first make Orthanc read a configuration directory on startup (because -pg may not modify -core's config file): /etc/orthanc/conf.d/ (from -core) /etc/orthanc/conf.d/orthanc.conf (from -core) /etc/orthanc/conf.d/sqlite.conf (from -sqlite or from -core) /etc/orthanc/conf.d/pg.conf (from -pg) An alternative would be to invent an inclusion mechanism for json such that orthanc.conf can say \include_if_exists(sqlite.conf) \include_if_exists(pg.conf) or some such. HOWEVER, given that postgresql-client really isn't that big: Installed-Size: 74 (kilobytes) Size: 51988 (bytes) Installed-Size: 73 Size: 51714 Installed-Size: 65 Size: 42506 you might just do away with the whole gamut and have orthanc(-core) just install everything (core and PG plugin) and also Depends: on sqlite _and_ postgresql-client. It would then provide a default configuration for sqlite and a correct-but-inactive configuration for the PG plugin. That is probably what I would suggest at this point. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150306100405.ga2...@hermes.hilbert.loc