Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: gnumed in Ubuntu

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Samstag 03 Januar 2009, Andreas Tille wrote:
  As
> you might have noticed the last upload to experimental included calling
> the database bootstrapping in the postinst script of the package.  I
> would like to see much more test with this package because if you now
> install the package blindly from unstable (or via Ubuntu indirectly
> from unstable) and might destroy data by doing this we might make users
> very angry.  If you are absolutely sure that everything is safe we
> might go on.  But I would really like to include some security measures
> like "Do you really want ... blabla".  That's why the package sits in
> experimental for the moment.

Yes. I think automatically bootstraping is not the best option. If it is 
linked to /usr/bin then all is fine. In the future there might be an xdialog 
kind of gui to invoke bootstraping , upgrading etc.

For the time being I am fine with a package that just dumps the files and 
bootstaping can be called manually by root.

Even for novice users modern wiindowmanager let the invoke a script through 
point and click. We might put a (non-) graphical sudo in a wrapper script. 
This would be a simple GUI (actuall opening a shell).



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