Re: Databases and purging

2002-04-11 Thread Juan Alvarez
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:19:43PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:32:19AM -0500, Juan Alvarez wrote: > > > your question its similar to: > > > > dpkg --purge bash, > > > > remove .bash_profile in the user home directory? oviously not (IMHO) > > This is not a similar

Re: Databases and purging

2002-04-11 Thread Juan Alvarez
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:19:43PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:32:19AM -0500, Juan Alvarez wrote: > > > your question its similar to: > > > > dpkg --purge bash, > > > > remove .bash_profile in the user home directory? oviously not (IMHO) > > This is not a similar

Re: Databases and purging

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:32:19AM -0500, Juan Alvarez wrote: > your question its similar to: > > dpkg --purge bash, > > remove .bash_profile in the user home directory? oviously not (IMHO) This is not a similar situation, as .bash_profile is not created by the package installation process. I

Re: Databases and purging

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:32:19AM -0500, Juan Alvarez wrote: > your question its similar to: > > dpkg --purge bash, > > remove .bash_profile in the user home directory? oviously not (IMHO) This is not a similar situation, as .bash_profile is not created by the package installation process.

Re: Databases and purging

2002-04-10 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi some packages simply ask the user e.g.: lprng mysql-server a. On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:58:41AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > When purging a package that created a database when it was set up, should > I also destroy the database, or is it considered as users' data? > > -- > Gunnar Wolf

Re: Databases and purging

2002-04-10 Thread Juan Alvarez
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:58:41AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > When purging a package that created a database when it was set up, should > I also destroy the database, or is it considered as users' data? i think: dpkg --purge package AFAIK, only remove global configuration files, but not databas

Databases and purging

2002-04-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
When purging a package that created a database when it was set up, should I also destroy the database, or is it considered as users' data? -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-1118 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF --

Re: Databases and purging

2002-04-10 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi some packages simply ask the user e.g.: lprng mysql-server a. On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:58:41AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > When purging a package that created a database when it was set up, should > I also destroy the database, or is it considered as users' data? > > -- > Gunnar Wolf

Re: Databases and purging

2002-04-10 Thread Juan Alvarez
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:58:41AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > When purging a package that created a database when it was set up, should > I also destroy the database, or is it considered as users' data? i think: dpkg --purge package AFAIK, only remove global configuration files, but not databa

Databases and purging

2002-04-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
When purging a package that created a database when it was set up, should I also destroy the database, or is it considered as users' data? -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-1118 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF --