On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 09:31:07AM -0700, susmit shannigrahi wrote: > This software (gnumed-server, which is not yet in bugzilla) uses a > postgres database for storing data. > > For subsequent installations (if tried), it simply overwrites the > database. In this process, it asks the user whether to overwrite the > DB or not. My initial thought was to backup the database somewhere and > continue. However, when I asked upstream, they replied that there is > no easy way to restore these databases. But isn't creating a PostgreSQL database at RPM install possible at all? How can the RPM know the access details etc.? Isn't there a packaging guideline that forbids this in all cases? -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
