[gentoo-dev] User question during ebuild

[gentoo-dev] User question during ebuild

[Aaron Held]

I've been playing around with Gentoo on and off since rc3 and I
have a need for it now.  I'm building a appliance style database
server for a client and I want to use ebuilds to install and
maintain my custom application as well as some patched utilities.
During the install I'd like to ask the user some questions and
take action based on the answer.

Is there a framework for this type of activity?

Thanks,
-Aaron Held
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Re: [gentoo-dev] User question during ebuild

[Thilo Bangert]

Hi,
On Thursday, 14. March 2002 16:33, you wrote:
> I've been playing around with Gentoo on and off since rc3 and I
> have a need for it now.  I'm building a appliance style database
> server for a client and I want to use ebuilds to install and
> maintain my custom application as well as some patched utilities.
> During the install I'd like to ask the user some questions and
> take action based on the answer.
>

this is a dificult part - i feel. usually ebuilds are just ebuilds - 
ie. the install software, they don't configure something. 

this is however in a few cases done anyway (the qmail ebuild comes to 
my mind - which pretty much sets up the whole thing) - but even though 
the ebuild does configuration, it does not ask the user any questions. 
IMHO ebuilds should not ask questions but run non-interactivly.

when gontran and me rebuild the djbdns ebuild, we choose to write some 
setup scripts which then ask the user all the questions needed to get 
one going.

(BTW. the new djbdns ebuild is not in portage yet - checkout 
http://fizzelpark.com/portage/ )

this is very much MHO!

> Is there a framework for this type of activity?

well, there is bash :-)

>
> Thanks,
> -Aaron Held

-- 
regards
Thilo

Re: [gentoo-dev] User question during ebuild

[Grant Goodyear]

> when gontran and me rebuild the djbdns ebuild, we choose to write some 
> setup scripts which then ask the user all the questions needed to get 
> one going.
> 
> (BTW. the new djbdns ebuild is not in portage yet - checkout 
> http://fizzelpark.com/portage/ )

Incidentally, the current djbdns ebuild works just fine.  I have
it working on my machine here, and all I did was follow the steps
on the djbdns web site.

-g2boojum-

PS.  I can't read your djbdns-1.0.5-r2.ebuild -- The requested URL
/portage/djbdns-1.05-r2.ebuild was not found on this server.

Re: [gentoo-dev] User question during ebuild

[Thilo Bangert]

On Thursday, 14. March 2002 21:27, you wrote:
> > when gontran and me rebuild the djbdns ebuild, we choose to write
> > some setup scripts which then ask the user all the questions needed
> > to get one going.
> >
> > (BTW. the new djbdns ebuild is not in portage yet - checkout
> > http://fizzelpark.com/portage/ )
>
> Incidentally, the current djbdns ebuild works just fine.  I have
> it working on my machine here, and all I did was follow the steps
> on the djbdns web site.

yepp, i know - i am using it myself :-)
all we did, was to add a tinydns-setup and dnscache-setup script for 
users not knowing djbdns that well
>
> -g2boojum-
>
> PS.  I can't read your djbdns-1.0.5-r2.ebuild -- The requested URL
> /portage/djbdns-1.05-r2.ebuild was not found on this server.

http://fizzelpark.com/portage/?dirpath=net-misc/djbdns/

this would also be bug 1014

-- 
regards
Thilo

Re: [gentoo-dev] User question during ebuild

[Thilo Bangert]

> PS.  I can't read your djbdns-1.0.5-r2.ebuild -- The requested URL
> /portage/djbdns-1.05-r2.ebuild was not found on this server.

man, must i have been tired yesterday - it should be working now
sorry

-- 
regards
Thilo

Re: [gentoo-dev] User question during ebuild

[Aaron Held]

> this is a dificult part - i feel. usually ebuilds are just
ebuilds -
> ie. the install software, they don't configure something.

I can understand that, specially if you do a make world type
action, but when I
setup the databae (postgres) and my app I need to create some
root user login
info that must be supplied by the end user. I'd hate to code that
into the ebuild.

Another idea is to test for it the first time the app runs and
then prompt at that
point.
> > Is there a framework for this type of activity?
>
> well, there is bash :-)

I thought I saw something about a port of the RedHat newt in CVS

>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Aaron Held
>
> --
> regards
> Thilo
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