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dbconfig-common documentation

Abstract

dbconfig-common is an implementation of the "best practices for database applications" draft, which provides debian packagers with an easy, reliable, and consistent method for managing databases used by debian packages.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2005 sean finney mailto:seanius@debian.org and 2015 Paul Gevers mailto:elbrus@debian.org.

This document is licensed under the Academic Free License, Version 2.1

Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Try it out!
• 3 Using dbconfig-common in your packages
  • 3.1 Quick and dirty: what to do
    • 3.1.1 Update package dependencies
    • 3.1.2 Putting hooks into the maintainer scripts
    • 3.1.3 Supplying the data/code for your database
  • 3.2 Advanced usage.
    • 3.2.1 Generating custom configuration files with database information
    • 3.2.2 Importing dbconfig-common into an existing package
    • 3.2.3 Database changes in new versions of your package
    • 3.2.4 Packages that support multiple types of databases
    • 3.2.5 Packages that connect to but should not create databases (read-only frontends)
    • 3.2.6 Packages that require extra logic during removal
    • 3.2.7 Hinting defaults and advanced control of configuration/installation
    • 3.2.8 Debugging problems with dbconfig-common
• 4 More Information (and how to help)

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