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

[sean finney]

hi michael,

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:53:06PM +0200, Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
> 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).

nope, you're missing out on a whole chunk of features.  try setting
the debconf priority to low and then installing one of the examples :)

> 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..)

there's some stuff in the "best practices" document...  


	sean
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