77896 - Prompt for DB connection info when creating localconfig.

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Given we should probably move towards a scenario where MySQL has a password,
when creating localconfig in checksetup.pl.

This allows us to easily recommend a MySQL password and explain the consequences
of not doing so, informing the administrator of this issue.

It's probably useful to ask pertinent information like all the database
connection info and the web server group.

Comment 1

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

-> Bugzilla product, Installation component, reassigning.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We are currently trying to wrap up Bugzilla 2.16.  We are now close enough to
release time that anything that wasn't already ranked at P1 isn't going to make
the cut.  Thus this is being retargetted at 2.18.  If you strongly disagree with
this retargetting, please comment, however, be aware that we only have about 2
weeks left to review and test anything at this point, and we intend to devote
this time to the remaining bugs that were designated as release blockers.

Comment 3

[Joel Peshkin]

These unloved bugs have been sitting untouched since June 2002 or longer.  If
nobody does anything else to them, they certainly won't make 2.18
Retargetting to 2.20.  If you really plan to push them right now, you might pull
them back in.

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This bug has not been touched by its owner in over six months, even though it is
targeted to 2.20, for which the freeze is 10 days away. Unsetting the target
milestone, on the assumption that nobody is actually working on it or has any
plans to soon.

If you are the owner, and you plan to work on the bug, please give it a real
target milestone. If you are the owner, and you do *not* plan to work on it,
please reassign it to [e-mail] or a .bugs component owner. If you are
*anybody*, and you get this comment, and *you* plan to work on the bug, please
reassign it to yourself if you have the ability.

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

*** Bug 262085 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***