[Dbconfig-common-devel] dbconfig-common and default values.

[sean finney]

hi matthijs,

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 04:52:54PM +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote:
> I tried to use dbconfig-generate-include for dspam. So I started reading
> the manpages. The documentation is not completely ok, for example I
> thought that "-o template_infile=.." is something like inputfile. And
> there is no documentation for what should be in inputfile. Like the
> dbc_dbuser, dbc_dbuser etc variables.

the environment variables are not documented in the d-g-i manpage
because you're not expected to use them.  however, as a general
rule i welcome suggestions on how to improve documentation :)

> Suggestion to add such documentation and a few examples how to use it.
> (would be really nice for new users to dbconfig-common)

again, suggestions (and patches) welcome.  i'll try and get around to
adding some.

> Another suggestion:
> The template has some variables like: _DBC_DBHOST_, _DBC_DBPORT_ and so
> on, but when one of these are not set. Then they are not filled in by
> dbconfig-generate-include, resulting in an error when starting the
> daemon or some other program that uses a database that's configured with
> dbconfig-common.

i'll think about this...


> And as last suggestion: please make the questions medium as I think they
> are pretty important.

the idea was that for "most" people, they're installing on the same
machine as the db, so it lowers the total number of questions that they
are asked.  perhaps what would be a best-of-both-worlds solution would
be to try and autodetect whether or not *a* db server is running on
the local server.  if there is no detected db server, then we could
bump up the priorities of the questions so that they would show up.

if this seems reasonable, please open up a wishilist bug for it, to
help me keep track of things :)

	sean
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