[Dbconfig-common-devel] dynamic list of supported database types

[sean finney]

hiya niko,

On Friday 07 March 2008 02:20:51 pm Niko Tyni wrote:

> To make sure the right combinations get installed, I'm planning to
> divide the dependencies into separate backend packages, eg.
> rt3.6-db-postgresql and the like.

that seems reasonable. 

> I'd like to make sure that the admin is presented with a list of only
> those dbtypes with the matching backend package (being) installed, mainly
> to avoid errors due to missing libdbd-*-perl packages.  I've got this
> working by setting an internal debconf variable from the rt3.6-db-*
> config scripts and then building $dbc_dbtypes from those in the
> request-tracker3.6 config script.
>
> Barring surprises in .config script execution order (which is what the
> debian-mentors post was about), this seems to work. If the .config script
> of request-tracker3.6 somehow does get run before the rt3.6-db-* ones,
> I can always defer the configuration to postinst time.

why not call the dbc stuff diretly from the rt3.6-db-* packages?



	sean
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