Am 17.01.2015 um 13:18 schrieb Paul Gevers: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Hi Patrick
Hi > > [New maintainer of dbconfig-common here, please be gentle with me for a > while.] we will see :D Thanks for taking care of it! > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:06:36 +0100 =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Patrick_Matth=E4i?= > <[email protected]> wrote: >> would it be possible to implement a feature as described here: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700895#15 > > Which is what exactly? You want to be able in <package> configuration to > disable the skipping of the question to use dbconfig-common to configure > the database? This would mean that you force people to allow > dbconfig-common to have dbadmin access to their database. That would be > quite against the philosophy of dbconfig-common as some "corporate > setups" don't allow this, e.g. the database is setup and configured > before a package is installed. It would also not help, as during > failure, the administrator is still allowed to "ignore further errors" > so the setup would continue, but would fail at the next step. > > I rather think you want to use the option to pass > "dbc_dgi_on_manual=false" and e.g. to check if the configuration file > exist after calling dbconfig-common to determine what your package > should do. Maybe even checking for the "dbc_install" variable in the > /etc/dbconfig-common/<package>.conf shell configuration file. > > Please let me know what you think, I may reconsider if you can convince > me, but that won't be easy. > > Paul > otrs is absolutely useless without a working database. Every step from the package installation and configuration will fail, otrs itself and all otrs tools. This is the case for most database depending packages. That you do not have dbadmin access in companies very often: yes What about providing two options: a) I have got dbadmin access, use it to configure everything b) I just have got SQL access data provided by my dba, please use them to configure $package What do you think? -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer Blog: http://www.linux-dev.org/ E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] */
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