Re: Installation on Ubuntu 13.04

From: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>
To: Martin Pitt <mpitt(at)debian(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-debian(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Installation on Ubuntu 13.04
Date: 2013-05-07 05:31:44
Message-ID: 20130507053144.GD5150@msgid.df7cb.de
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Re: Martin Pitt 2013-05-06 <20130507044020(dot)GD2875(at)piware(dot)de>
> > Martin: What do you think about generating the logrotate config at
> > install (configuration) time so we can drop the fixed logrotate
> > depends/breaks? Using "ucf" for generated files in /etc/ is pretty
> > easy to do, the open question would be how to detect that logrotate
> > was just upgraded and that we need to re-generate the file. Maybe with
> > a trigger on /usr/sbin/logrotate? Or is that too much magic? (Are we
> > aware of other packages that have this problem?)
>
> It's too much magic for my taste. With conffiles there's so much that
> can go wrong, and one often runs into situations where they cannot be
> updated automatically.

I'm less worried about that part, ucf is really good at that. It would
be using a similar sed/awk rule like we have now, and the result of
that is the new template that is presented to the admin. (It even
supports 3-way merges.)

> But in the end I don't think that this is such a big problem; the
> non-LTS releases are really not a good thing to deploy PostgreSQL on,
> especially now that from 13.04 on they are only supported for 9
> months. So perhaps the right answer for now is just "don't do that
> then"?

People still like to do development on their laptops...

Christoph
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