Postinsts barfing when mysqld not running

[Scott Kitterman]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:35:08 -0400 Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:48:39PM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote:
>> >
>> > It's a valid configuration to have the database on an other host.
>> > Therefore similar packages like simba depend only on a database client
>> > (which will hopefully know where to reach the database) and suggest the
>> > database server at best.
>> >
>> >   
>> Right, again, poor choice of words.  I mean install a database server 
>> "somehwere".  I suppose it should be more descriptive that either 
>> connect to remote database or install local database.
>
>I don't think that there is a big difference in a remote versus local
>database (the latter is remote with localhost used as the hostname).
>
>> 
>> What I was really looking for though was if this was even the correct 
>> approach to get around these issues. 
>> 
>> I suppose another option would be to prompt the user for 1. Connect to 
>> remote db 2. Use local db  3. Leave unconfigured but that just means 
>> more prompting that we don't like, no?
>
>What you'd probably need to ask is the database configuration (such as
>host, username, password to create the tables). Try to connect to the
>database and fail graciously if it cannot connect.
>
Would you have an example of a package that gets it right?

Scott K