hey christian, On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:34:47AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > I think the following will work: > 1. Seting Woodies debconf answer to false once MySQL 4.0 or 4.1 gets > installed so that his danger is voided once for all.
sounds like a good idea for woody.
> 2. To prevent 4.0, 4.1 and soon 5.0, which asks the Debconf question
> only immediately before purging in the postrm script, from removing
> each others files I check with "dpkg -l mysql-server*" if there is
> more than one package in hold or installed state.
that seems really hackish. what about keeping the default false,
and changing the template to have a scary warning saying "do not
select this option if you have other versions of mysql installed"?
> I've committed changes to the 4.0 branch. They are untested because I'm
> too tired. If you have time, can you review them? I will do more tomorrow.
i don't have time to do it tonight, but i'll see if i can take a look
at it tomorrow.
sean
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