Re: [Gnumed-devel] bootstraping v19 without starting from v2

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Dienstag, 12. November 2013, 15:25:58 schrieb Karsten Hilbert:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 07:19:58AM +0100, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > wrote:
> > > > Thinking about it it might be a configuration issue on my side. On
> > > > various
> > > > systems I get asked for passwords repetitively.
> > > > 
> > > > I want to be asked for root *once* and that is it. I don't care how it
> > > > is
> > > > done technically. I just don't want to put in the password every time
> > > > v2-v3-v4-v5. You get the point.
> > > 
> > > On my laptop, it took 18 acknowledgments (and 30 minutes) to go from v2
> > > to
> > > v19.
> > > 
> > > I am attracted to the idea of new users "restoring" a dump of whatever
> > > is
> > > the current version of the db, for example version 19.
> > > 
> > > I was even thinking as a service to GNUmed to provide such a dump
> > > *after*
> > > first removing much of the demo data.
> > 
> > Is it technically feasible to make v18 the new v1 ?
> 
> Yes. But it would be extremely stupid.
> 
The argument always seems to be the user is not supposed to boostrap anyway 
and it is a once in a lifetime job and last but not least ideally all it takes 
is one password prompt.

Reality is slightly different. Guess this issue will be postponed until it 
really becomes an issue. Maybe this never will be the case.

Sebastian