On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Does
anyone see a problem with that approach?
The web installer should not be a part of installation from a package
at all. We should just get the wiki name from debconf, use the system
locale as the language, and install it with defaults otherwise. Then
the user will have a working wiki after install.
-- Tim Starling
I disagree. Existing packages do try to install it in /mediawiki or so,
leaving it half-configured for the user to finish by running the web
installer but that's not smart.
IMHO installing the mediawiki package should provide you with a command
like install-mediawiki which would request the location and setup all
the server alias needed.
New installer should fix a lot of this. We'll be including a CLI installer
in 1.17, which dpkg or whatever could call to handle the DB setup, etc.
Shouldn't need to use the web installer *at all* at that point.
-Chad