Postinsts barfing when mysqld not running

[Mathias Gug]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:24:44PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >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?
> 

I don't. It seems that this is a pretty common operation though. Most of
the applications need the same kind of information to setup things:
host, username, password and database name to use. Then the postinst
script tries to connect to the database and creates the necessary
tables/indexes.

However, it assumes that the database and the username have already been
created and the necessary privileges have been granted. In the case of a
local database, the debian-sys-maintainer account could be used to
create all of this before setting the tables for the application.
In the case of a remote database server, the database needs to be
created before the package is installed.

--
Mathias