On a clean system I emerged Postgresql. I would expect that running /etc/init.d/postgresql start would start the database with sensible default values. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. New system 2. emerge postgresql 3. /etc/init.d/postgresql start Actual Results: /etc/init.d/postgresql start * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * directory not found: /var/lib/postgresql/data * You should create PGDATA directory first. After creating PGDATA: /etc/init.d/postgresql start * Starting PostgreSQL ... sh: /var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.log: Permission denied * Please see log file: /var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.log After setting the correct permission on PGDATA: /etc/init.d/postgresql start * Starting PostgreSQL ... * Please see log file: /var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.log Looking at: /var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.log postmaster cannot access the server configuration file "/var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory Expected Results: Postgresql should have started. To any configuration question assume that the user will answer "I do not care. Give me a sensible default". The users who cannot live with sensible default will tweak the system anyway, so it will not be more trouble for them.
It seems I have to run: ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-db/postgresql-8.0.1-r4/postgresql-8.0.1-r4.ebuild config Why is this not done automatically?
Closing as invalid, failure to follow the instructions is not a bug.
When installing a package that depends on a package that depends on PostgreSql it is impossible to see the instructions. And since PostgreSQL is unsuable before executing the command, why not make it the default to execute the command automatically?
(In reply to comment #3) > When installing a package that depends on a package that depends on PostgreSql > it is impossible to see the instructions. See Bug 11359. > And since PostgreSQL is unsuable before executing the command, why not make it > the default to execute the command automatically? Because the ebuild config stuff is only usefull when installing, not when upgrading.
