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
Hi DDs,
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
connect wordpress to a remote mysql-server so the local
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
* 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 to
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-server
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
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 satisfy both use-cases
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 you want
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
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 mysql
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 the
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