Thijs Kinkhorst wrote...
> Hello Christoph,
>
> > This results in a mess if the mysqld should run on localhost, too
> > (typical setup for a small size and also suggested by the installer) but
> > is not installed yet.
>
> We can never verify this for remote hosts, only for localhost.
Correct. But we can assume that a remote mysqld indicated a more
experienced admin, and: There's not the confusion due to the
not-yet-configured phpbb2 package.
> So we'd
> need to special-case localhost. I'll see whether that's possible without
> generating too much trouble. Afterall, we cannot reliably check whether
> MySQL is completely correctly installed and is actually running on
> whatever host, so fixing this would only handle a small subset of the
> cases.
We could do "dpkg -l 'mysql-server*'" and check whether at least one
line begins with "ii". But that's
- ugly
- slow
- probably too late anyway to stop phpbb2 configuration in favour of
mysql-server.
As far as I can see there's no nice solution. Then enhancing the message
as initially proposed is probably the best thing we could do.
Christoph
PS: Your warm and speedy response is much appriciated.
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