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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there. It is definitely possible, and Knut has already done this in
an old installer that installed Tomcat as well. I just wanted to get
"some" installer working, for demonstration purposes here in Zambia.

 I think we should really develop a list of requirements, and go from
there. Likely, we may have multiple installer variants. I see a few
possibilities.

1) A vanilla H2 installer which alternatively, can be packaged with
the Demo DB. This should be very simple based on the current BitRock
installer.If one were to create the installer with the demo DB as part
of the package, this is already done. Alternatively, we could allow
the user to download it, and install it, but this is not feasible in
this part of the world.

2) A vanilla Postgres installer, that come prepackaged with the
Postgres binary. We already have this to some degree with the IZPack
installer, and it should be pretty simple to do this in BitRock as
well. It just needs some more time to figure out how to install
postgres silently (which is already documented on the page you sent)
and install the DB.

3) Utilizing Knut's work, a combined Postgres/Tomcat installer. I
would really regard this as lower priority, as I see no compelling
reason not to use the live package instead of a full-blown Tomcat
installation for desktop installs (which was my target audience).
There are already pretty good instructions of how to get DHIS2
installed (either with the Debian packager) or from individual
packages. I would think that people capable of installing Tomcat,
should be capable of installing Postgres.

The great thing about BitRock is the auto-update feature. I have not
looked at this, but it seems to be pretty striaghtforward.

Let me know what you think.

Regards,
jason


2010/2/18 Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I havent downloaded bitrock yet, but looking at the website docs, you
> can define postinstall actions to run scripts.  So isn't it possible
> to simply run pg_restore from here?
>
> 2010/2/18 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>
>> 2010/2/18 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Hi Lars,
>>> Right now, there are two versions. The IZPack installer uses the
>>> native windows MSI. The user has to install this by themselves.
>>> The MSI handles the creation of the Postgres user, and the
>>> installation of the service. This should really be done as a silent
>>> install, but I did not figure out how to do this quite yet.
>>>
>>> I started as well on the BitRock variant, which is also in that
>>> branch. It will install the H2 DB by default. Knut has provided a lot
>>> of examples of BitRock installers using Postgres, but I have not
>>> looked at them yet.
>>>
>>> Ideally, we should just have a single installer, and BitRock
>>> (especially since we got the license from them) seems to be great. I
>>> have not really figured out yet though how to get it to install
>>> Postgres, but I am sure it is possible.
>>>
>>> Basically, we need create a BitRock installer that installs postgres.
>>> A batch file could then be used to load a sample DB. Knut has already
>>> done this in some of the older installers he created, so it should be
>>> pretty simple. I suppose this could also be done with IZpack, in a
>>> similar manner. The problem is that we need to be able to control the
>>> postgres user name and password, in order to populate the DB with the
>>> sample database.
>>>
>>> As for the BitRock installer, we can simple package the sample DB
>>> along with the installer, and ask the user if they want to install it
>>> or not. If they do, it will get copied to the /database folder,
>>> otherwise, we will leave it empty.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> jason
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Tutorial for silent install of postgres windows installer:
>> http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/silent.html
>> I am not sure if this is possible but could we do this similar to how we
>> "install" H2? Set it up, include a database, compress it and when
>> installing, simply decompress it?
>>
>>
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