[Dbconfig-common-devel] support for databases on remote hosts?

[Michael Ablassmeier]

hi,

i havent found anything in the documentation regarding dbconfig-common
and setting up databases on *remote* hosts. As it stands, it seems like
packages which use dbconfig-common have a suggest to the database system
they use and expect it to be installed on the localhost (and if thats
not the case they fail gracefully and let the user do the stuff).

However, im now wondering if there is a way to make dbconfig-common ask
for the database host, for which to set up the databases (of course,
this would mean the administrator of the remote database has to grant
access to connect to the database with all needed privileges from remote
hosts). 

Im also interested what the best practises for handling the database
server from the packages view are (like, placing the needed SQL Scripts
for setting up the Database somewhere to /usr/share/ and provide a
pointer in  README.Debian how to setup them by hand etc..)

bye,
    - michael