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On Thursday 29 April 2004 22:01, Eldad Zack wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 00:04, Ajai Khattri wrote: |
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> > Let's say I have an ebuild that uses mysql. Somewhere is a place for you |
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> > to specify the host, db name, username and password for MySQL during the |
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> > build process. If I wanted to ask the user that info, then what is the |
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> > standard way of doing that? (Or am I using the wrong paradigm?). |
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> The best way is to allow run-time configuration in /etc files. |
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> If you MUST specify these details at build time (and without knowing |
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> exactly what is the application in question) - well, it's a braindamaged |
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> application. IMHO, this should go in a portage enviornmental and the |
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> ebuild should never be interactive. |
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Sometimes this just isn't possible. I had one application which required |
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src_uri files to be retrieved from a password protected ftp server. Portage |
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should be powerful enough to do stuff like that without hardcoding usernames |
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and passwords in the ebuild. |
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