Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-29 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Bastian Venthur wrote: > What is the preferred solution for this kind of problem? > > I've heard rumors that packages have a Description: field which could probably contain a note along the lines of: WordPress requires access to a local or remote MySQL server. If you wish to run the s

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-Jul-06, 10:14 (CDT), Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Wuertele wrote: > But how can a user mark the sql-server as > installed-to-satisfy-dependency? I mean when I remove wordpress (or some > similar package) mysql-server won't be removed until I do it manually. > Wasn't th

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Bastian Venthur
Martin Wuertele wrote: >> What is the preferred solution for this kind of problem? > > Wordpress already suggests virtual-mysql-server which is imo sufficient. > There might be arguments to raise this to recommends however I don't see > the need for 2 packages. It might make sense to mention the

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Izak Burger
On 7/25/06, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: An alternative would be to have a pseudo-package (or however we name it) mysql-server-remote that a local admin installs to tell dpkg that it should never install a local server. I'm not sure this is a typical use case, but the principle might

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Michal Čihař
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:49:06 +0100 Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about: > > Depends: mysql-remote-server | mysql-server > > Then create a dummy "mysql-remote-server" package which (possibly > conflicts with mysql-server) could be used to satisfy dependencies > only? If

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Frank Küster
Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:12:24 +0200 > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Since wordpress is not the only package depending on mysql-server, I'd >> like to ask how other developers dealt with this problem? >> >> My proposal to satisf

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:12 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I recently stumbled upon a bug (#379561) in wordpress. Wordpress depends > on a mysql-server installed in order to run, but the Debian package > wordpress does not. > I filled a bugreport and the answer was that some users might want to >

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:21:03AM +0200, Michal ??iha?? wrote: > > My proposal to satisfy both use-cases was, to provide two versions of > > wordpress: > > (1) wordpress -- depends on mysql-server > > (2) wordpress-remotesql -- does not How about: Depends: mysql-remote-server | mysql-serv

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-25 10:12]: > I recently stumbled upon a bug (#379561) in wordpress. Wordpress depends > on a mysql-server installed in order to run, but the Debian package > wordpress does not. > > I filled a bugreport and the answer was that some users might want t

Re: how to deal with packages depending on mysql-server

2006-07-25 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi all On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:12:24 +0200 Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since wordpress is not the only package depending on mysql-server, I'd > like to ask how other developers dealt with this problem? > > My proposal to satisfy both use-cases was, to provide two versions of > wo