Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (131 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 17:51 schrieb Manuel Arostegui Ramirez:
> El Miércoles, 20 de Diciembre de 2006 17:41, Adrian Schröter escribió:
> > there is, but it is really evil to do this.
> >
> > Because this interrupts a maybe automated installation process.
>
> Yeah, but to be honest, I think it's more comfortable to do that
> rather than look for the sql file an run it manually.
> I would like to know how do you that :-)

If you want to make it easy for your users, write a small script 
("myapp_setup" or something like that) that creates the database.

For extra bonus, add some echo commands in the postinstall script that 
point the user to your database creation script.

Advantages:
- some lines of text output won't hurt in automated installation
- it's still easy for the user to create the database
- no evil hacks needed
- users cann install your package without being forced to create the 
  database (might be a rare usecase, but there are people who want to
  read your scripts without using them for example).

I can imagine some _really_ crazy ways to autoinstall your database, but 
they are that evil that I don't even want to mention them ;-)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
-- 
> > *gruebel* Beenden sich Zombie-Prozesse nicht irgendwann mal von
> > selbst?
>Ne, die sind ja schon beendet.
Umpf.  Jetzt wird's schwierig.  Wie zum Henker tötet man tote Untote,
die schon gestorben sind?
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