Hi Karsten: I like (from a technical viewpoint perhaps :) ) your idea of asking the user for confirmation.
Is there any good examples/reference for using debconf for such a purpose in postrm? Thx Misha Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:17:37AM -0700, misha680 wrote: > >> So here's the OpenMRS story - perhaps you have some opinions, but I see >> this >> as paralleling gnumed, specifically: >> * when we _install_ the package, _no_ databases are created >> * when we _purge_ the package, _no_ databases are erased >> >> The databases themselves are created by the user in the initial setup >> wizard >> that they run by going to >> http://localhost:8080/openmrs > > So they are user content. Absolutely. Don't delete them. > > This is very much like deleting user home pages when > deinstalling Apache. > >> p.s. From a programming viewpoint, we could certainly removed the >> databases. >> However, from a practical viewpoint, I am guessing that not all OpenMRS >> implementers are 100% experts in computers and Linux. I could easily see >> someone getting confused, purging a package, and then being whoops all my >> medical records are gone! forever... > > Absolutely ! Don't. Or if at all - offer an option to do > so, have the user confirm at least twice with BIG FAT > warnings and still stow away a secret backup somewhere. > >> p.p.s. I just checked and even purging mysql does not actually remove >> database data: > > Same with PostgreSQL. > > Karsten > -- > GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net > E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/OpenMRS-package-is-ready%2C-I-believe-tp29833953p29892754.html Sent from the debian-med mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
