[Dbconfig-common-devel] Re: Bug#341958: dbconfig-common: Support for table prefix

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 13:56 -0500, sean finney wrote:
> at the very least, dbconfig-common could hold the common debconf
> template, so that multiple packages could benefit from having the text
> pre-translated.  

I guess that would create confusion if dbconfig-common doesn't also
provide functionality to use the prefix.

> it would still be the packagers' responsibility to ensure that the table
> prefixes are correctly used when creating the tables, which means that
> the simple sql-file install method is out and they would have to use
> the script method for installing the db, but it's an improvement,
> anyway. 

This would be a good start. It would at least make it possible for those
packages that really want it, even if it's not very easy.

> btw: how is phpbb currently handling this?

On further invesitgation, it doesn't. I thought it did, but I
appearently confused it being on the todo-list with actually doing it.
So that's good news in the sense that converting to dbconfig-common will
not be a regression for us. I hope to fix this sometime soon but it
keeps being pushed back due to other packaging considerations.


bye,
Thijs
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