hi sean,
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:37:45AM -0400, sean finney wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:15:52PM +0200, Thomas Huriaux wrote:
> > > im not sure why dbconfig-common even *trys* to create a new database
> > > (-user) here. However, when used, dbconfig-common always would need root
> > > privileges on the mysql database for this (or privileges from another
> > > user allowed to grant rights), which means the administrator has to
> > > grant root access from remote hosts (if the frontend is installed on
> > > another server), otherwise the package fails to install.
> >
> > Sean, can you please have a look at this bug (#372898) and tell us if
> > there is a workaround for the problems explained by Michael?
>
> if i understand correctly, you want another package to prompt for the
> various settings information, but not actually do any of the setup?
yeah, thats exactly the point.
> currently, you can't do that. you *can* use the settings from one
> package in another if they're both installed on the same host (by
> manually invoking dbconfig-generate-include in your postinst), but the
> full version of what you want is non-existant at this point.
yes, that was my impression too.
> however, this sounds like a cool feature to have (i have a package
> which could use this too), and it wouldn't be too hard to implement.
> please open a wishlist bug against dbconfig-common (or reassign this one)
> and i'll see what i can do in the next release or two :)
yes, that'd be great. Something like having 2 profiles for
dbconfig-common, one that does actually do the whole database
modification stuff and another one which can be used to ask a certain
set of questions, only for creating a include file (which could be used
for client-only packages)..
It would be even greater to be able to tell the client side profile what
questions to ask (like dbc_questions="dbc_server dbc_username") or
something. So packages which prompt for database questions would not
need to create their own debconf templates and such, saves alot of
translation effords.
> ps - echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sed -e 's/sean/seanius/' :)
sorry about that :)
bye,
- michael
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