Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed 0.5.0 ready for openSUSE and Debian

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 01:17:55PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> >  http://packages.debian.org/experimental/gnumed-server
> >
> >Please test it carefully and I'll move it to unstable which will
> >result in a package in testing soon.
> 
> Reading the info at the website, it is said that the package "just
> installs" the SQL files.
> 
> Does "installs" simply mean copy to a suitable place on the machine?

Yes.

> - is this meaning of "install" therefore usefully (as with MacPorts)
> distinguished from an "activation" phase in which the administrator
> would upgrade a gnumed database, if one already exists, otherwise
> optionally do a (destructive) database install?

Correct.

> - does the server package "install" (make available) server-side
> code (whether it is SQL alone,  and/or additional maybe python code,
> which is also needed to be running in order for clients to work
> properly?

No.

Karsten
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