Re: [K12OSN] Possible inclusion ?

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Nicholas Rosasco wrote:

>Hello...
>
>	I am the documentation juggle for Koha (www.koha.org), an Open Source
>library application.  I was wondering if you would be interested in
>including Koha in the applications you advertise/bundle for use by school
>libraries.
>
>Thanks,
>Nick Rosasco
>nrosasco acm org

Looking through the install docs, the only problem I see is automatically
creating a database & associated username/password. I can't think of a
reasonable way of doing that in an automated fashion. Does anyone who has
more experience setting up database-based apps know of a good way of packaging
something like koha?

Every database-based app I've seen has instructions similar to Koha's:

	1/ Create a new mysql database called for example Koha
	2/ Set up a username and password in mysql 
	3/ Use the mysql script to create the tables
	  mysql -uusername -ppassword Koha < koha.mysql

Knowing the administrative password for step #1 & NOT using a default username/
password for step #2 are the gotchas.

-Eric