On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >>> Does anyone see a problem with that approach? >> >> The web installer should not be a part of installation from a package >> at all. We should just get the wiki name from debconf, use the system >> locale as the language, and install it with defaults otherwise. Then >> the user will have a working wiki after install. >> >> -- Tim Starling > > I disagree. Existing packages do try to install it in /mediawiki or so, > leaving it half-configured for the user to finish by running the web > installer but that's not smart. > IMHO installing the mediawiki package should provide you with a command > like install-mediawiki which would request the location and setup all > the server alias needed. > >
New installer should fix a lot of this. We'll be including a CLI installer in 1.17, which dpkg or whatever could call to handle the DB setup, etc. Shouldn't need to use the web installer *at all* at that point. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
