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From: Aaron Held <aaron@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] User question during ebuild
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:14:31
Message-Id: 004901c1cbce$928e8600$4b00a8c0@metrony.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] User question during ebuild by Thilo Bangert
1 > this is a dificult part - i feel. usually ebuilds are just
2 ebuilds -
3 > ie. the install software, they don't configure something.
4
5 I can understand that, specially if you do a make world type
6 action, but when I
7 setup the databae (postgres) and my app I need to create some
8 root user login
9 info that must be supplied by the end user. I'd hate to code that
10 into the ebuild.
11
12 Another idea is to test for it the first time the app runs and
13 then prompt at that
14 point.
15 > > Is there a framework for this type of activity?
16 >
17 > well, there is bash :-)
18
19 I thought I saw something about a port of the RedHat newt in CVS
20
21 >
22 > >
23 > > Thanks,
24 > > -Aaron Held
25 >
26 > --
27 > regards
28 > Thilo
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