Hi Charles, the script metadb is used for the "user management". It creates a new "database" (sqlite) if not already created. It is required for some actions enabled by default at install.
I think we can remove it from post-install however. User can still execute it if required. Olivier ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Charles Plessy" <ple...@debian.org> > À: "Olivier Sallou" <olivier.sal...@irisa.fr>, debian-med@lists.debian.org > Envoyé: Dimanche 10 Avril 2011 13:28:04 > Objet: Uploading GBrowse to experimental ? > Dear Olivier, > > as you probably have seen on the commit mailing list, I have made a > couple of > changes to the gbrowse package. The goal of many of them was to make > the build > process more simple according to the common practices in Debian. I > hope that > you are not offended that I undid some of your work, just to redo it > “our way”. > I think that it will help other members of the Debian Med team to > contribute. > > My main problem is the postinst script that calls > /usr/bin/gbrowse_metadb_config, as I do not understand well that this > script is > doing exactly. It looks like it creates and deletes directories under > /usr and > /var. I think that it is difficult to justify, as these directories > may belong > to the package itself. Indeed, gbrowse fails to be installed twice in > a row > when this script is enabled. Since it does not look necessary to at > least run > the examples, I disabled it for the moment. Similarly, GBrowse seems > to create > some files or directory under /usr at run time. This is also something > that > we will have to correct. > > This said, I do not want to postpone the upload of the package ad > vitam aeternam. > How about uploading it to the experimental section of our archive ? > Then we > can keep on working on the issues above, and the proper setup of the > render farm. > > In the past, Upstream has been very suppportive and if we have GBrowse > in > experimental, I think that they will be very motivated to help us by > adding > some flexibility in GBrowse where needed. > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Debian Med packaging team, > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/346928857.1215564.1302507204002.javamail.r...@zmbs1.inria.fr
