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

Fri Nov 26 22:17:31 CET 2010

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:00:41PM +0100, Michael scherer wrote:
+> 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.
+> 
+Or a soft link + bug report at mdv, as I think this is the kind of fix that
+could be accepted by Guillaume ( bugzilla maintainer, iirc ), thus reducing 
+the need on our side to change the rpm
+( and so, reducing our work when upgrading, and when doing security update ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+