[Dbconfig-common-devel] Re: Status of "editing pg_hba.conf"

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:42:54PM +0100, RKI Andreas wrote:

> Nothing against supporting PG 7.4 upstream but I see no reason to
> relay on features of PG 8.1 *on Debian installations*.
Not sure what you mean. On the other hand, even 8.1 does not
support giving ownership to someone else for every type of
database objects so what I think might be your argument is
probably still moot anyway.

> >	- for that, however, we need to edit pg_hba.conf
> >	- personally, I am fine with popping up an editor
> >	  with pg_hba.conf in it and showing instructions
> >	  on what to do
> 
> Well, popping up an editor in the install process is not a good
> option.  The only option for manual intervention is a debconf
> message that you have to read /usr/share/doc/gnumed-server/README.Debian
> and follow the instructions there to get a functional GNUmed server.
Well, that won't work since you cannot install the database
without having followed the instructions in the first place.
And you can't read the instructions in
/usr/share/doc/gnumed-server/README.Debian without first
having installed gnumed-server.

Unless you want to split this up into gnumed-server and
gnumed-server-doc, then somehow guarantuee gnumed-server-doc
is installed *before* gnumed-server and then prompt the user
to go read and follow instructions from early in the
gnumed-server setup process.

Karsten
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