[Slackbuilds-users] How far should doinst.sh go?

[Phillip Warner]

I don't think I would want those kind of users installing those packages in the first place...and if someone else installs the packages, then that person should do the post-install stuff.

--phillip

--- On Fri, 10/16/09, Niels Horn <niels.horn at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Niels Horn <niels.horn at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] How far should doinst.sh go?
> To: "SlackBuilds.org Users List" <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>
> Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 7:09 AM
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Erik
> Hanson <erik at slackbuilds.org>
> wrote:
> > On Oct 16, 2009, at  9:03 AM, Niels Horn wrote:
> >
> >> Should the doinst.sh just do the basic, like
> updating the menu, check
> >> /etc/(program) config files etc.?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> Or, should it also:
> >> - set up a MySQL database if the software needs
> it
> >
> > No.
> >
> >> - create needed users & groups
> >
> > No.
> >
> >> - change crontab
> >
> > No.
> >
> >> - etc...
> >> (almost like a Windows installer ;) )
> >
> > Most certainly not. :)
> >
> >> What is the correct way: just install the basic
> elements and let the
> >> user do the rest of the setting up, or do as much
> as possible?
> >
> > Let the user do it, you can put some post-install
> instructions into a
> > README.SLACKWARE file, there are numerous examples in
> the repo.
> >
> > --
> > Erik Hanson
> > http://slackbuilds.org/
> >
> 
> OK, understood!
> 
> I actually like the way the MySQL package is installed: it
> is all
> there, together with some scripts to configure it *IF* you
> want to do
> it that way.
> 
> Since I work in the support business I have nightmares of
> users
> complaining "Hey, I installed your <xyz> package but
> when I click on
> the icon nothing works!" :D
> I admit they are usually not Slackware users though, I
> guess SBo has a
> more 'refined' customer base. ;)
> 
> Niels
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