I thought it only implied one bit of configuration information somewhere
under /etc/.
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote:
Yes, but this is a particular case of the general problem of interactive
installation scripts. Furthermore, this particular case is one that is a
bit extreme: on
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote:
3. Should there be policy on this matter for database packages in particular?
I would like to see a way to preemptively indicate that the data
should not be deleted. In a busy environment with several sysadmins,
you want to be able to make such decisions
--On Mon, May 18, 1998 12:46 pm -0400 Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote:
3. Should there be policy on this matter for database packages in
particular?
I would like to see a way to preemptively indicate that the data
should not be deleted. In a busy
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to see a way to preemptively indicate that the data
should not be deleted. In a busy environment with several sysadmins,
you want to be able to make such decisions ahead of time.
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can't you use chattr for
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes:
case answer in
y|Y|YES|yes|Yes)
rm -rf postgres/data
;;
Should you not add
*) echo Purge aborted.; exit 1;;
?
But that defeats the
When a database package is purged, the implication is that the data
stored in the database should also be deleted. Therefore I have
added the instructions to delete the data to postgresql's postrm.
However, since it is possible to flag whole groups of packages for
purging when using
I'm raising this issue in relation to PostgreSQL, but I am also copying to
the maintainers of msql and mysql, for whom the same issues must be relevant.
When a database package is purged, the implication is that the data stored
in the database should also be deleted. Therefore I have added the
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes:
When a database package is purged, the implication is that the data stored
in the database should also be deleted. Therefore I have added the
instructions to delete the data to postgresql's postrm.
However, since it is possible to flag whole groups of
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes:
Now, section 2.3.8 of the Policy Manual states that we should minimise
interactive prompting while installing; it does not even contemplate the
idea of prompting in the removal scripts.
That section of the Policy Manual says, Packages should try to
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