[Mageia-sysadm] [477] do snapshots of the custom bugzilla template

Fri Nov 26 22:00:41 CET 2010

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:42:32PM +0100, Dexter Morgan wrote:
+> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 04:03:12PM +0100, root at mageia.org wrote:
+> >> Revision: 477
+> >> Author:   dmorgan
+> >> Date:     2010-11-26 16:03:12 +0100 (Fri, 26 Nov 2010)
+> >> Log Message:
+> >> -----------
+> >> do snapshots of the custom bugzilla template
+> >>
+> >> Modified Paths:
+> >> --------------
+> >>     puppet/modules/bugzilla/manifests/init.pp
+> >>
+> >> Modified: puppet/modules/bugzilla/manifests/init.pp
+> >> ===================================================================
+> >> --- puppet/modules/bugzilla/manifests/init.pp 2010-11-26 12:48:53 UTC (rev 476)
+> >> +++ puppet/modules/bugzilla/manifests/init.pp 2010-11-26 15:03:12 UTC (rev 477)
+> >> @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+> >>  class bugzilla {
+> >>
+> >> +   $bugzilla_location = "/usr/share/bugzilla/template/en/custom"
+> >> +
+> >
+> > IMHO, /usr is not really the good place for this, as it should be kept
+> > for the distribution :
+> > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE18
+> >
+> > According to FHS, this would rather go to /var/.
+> >
+> > --
+> > Michael Scherer
+> 
+> hi,
+> 
+> the issue here is that bugzilla is directly installed here. you
+> suggest we change the rpm ?
+
+I suggest to either use bugzilla facility to use any directory ( but a quick check
+of the code show that bugzilla do not support it, while this seems to be quite easy to do by adding
+some code to Bugzilla/Constants.pm ), or to use a extension ( which will then give a 
+/var/ directory as result to the call of template_dir ).
+
+Extensions seems safer to me, but that would still requires fiddling
+with /usr to add the extension. I am not sure it can be done by some 
+PERL5LIB magic. And the fact that no one even commented on this 
+3 years old bug report ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370447 )
+do let me much hope :/
+
+A third option would be to use PERL5LIB to shortcircuit Bugzilla::Constants.
+
+> should we wait for mageia to start or we do a custom rpm for now ?
+
+I think a extension can be done without touching to bugzilla rpm.
+
+But IMHO, bugzilla should be able to read template from a custom directory, 
+like transifex or any catalyst application ( ie, like everything we have 
+deployed so far except bugzilla ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer 
+