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authorjake%bugzilla.org <>2003-04-23 11:04:01 +0200
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The source files for the Bugzilla Guide have long been using the XML version of DocBook but still residing in the sgml/ directory with an extension of .sgml.
In an effort to maintain CVS history, the raw files were copied on the CVS server to the xml/ directory and renamed to have .xml for the extension; any checkins before this one did have the .sgml extension.
-rw-r--r--docs/README.docs52
-rw-r--r--docs/makedocs.pl4
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml205
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/about.sgml227
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/administration.sgml1640
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/conventions.sgml179
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/database.sgml394
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/dbschema.mysql1
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/faq.sgml1321
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/filetemp.patch18
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/gd-makefile.patch22
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/gfdl.sgml448
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/glossary.sgml482
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/index.sgml21
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/installation.sgml1615
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/integration.sgml101
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/introduction.sgml149
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/patches.sgml113
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/requiredsoftware.sgml88
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/using.sgml580
-rw-r--r--docs/sgml/variants.sgml123
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml42
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/about.xml4
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/administration.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/conventions.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/database.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/faq.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/gfdl.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/glossary.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/index.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/installation.xml6
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/integration.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/introduction.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/patches.xml4
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/requiredsoftware.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/using.xml2
-rw-r--r--docs/xml/variants.xml2
37 files changed, 71 insertions, 7792 deletions
diff --git a/docs/README.docs b/docs/README.docs
index 80349957f..18c4126b8 100644
--- a/docs/README.docs
+++ b/docs/README.docs
@@ -3,34 +3,32 @@ You'll find these directories and files here:
README.docs # This README file
html/ # The compiled HTML docs from SGML sources (do not edit)
-sgml/ # The original SGML doc sources (edit these)
+xml/ # The original XML doc sources (edit these)
txt/ # The compiled text docs from SGML sources
-ps/ # The compiled PostScript docs from SGML sources
-pdf/ # The compiled Adobe PDF docs from SGML sources
-
-A note about SGML:
- The documentation is written in DocBook 3.1/4.1 SGML, and attempts to adhere
-to the LinuxDoc standards everywhere applicable (http://www.linuxdoc.org).
-Please consult "The LDP Author Guide" at linuxdoc.org for details on how
-to set up your personal environment for compiling SGML files.
+
+A note about the XML:
+ The documentation is written in DocBook 4.1.2, and attempts to adhere
+to the LinuxDoc standards everywhere applicable (http://www.tldp.org).
+Please consult "The LDP Author Guide" at tldp.org for details on how
+to set up your personal environment for compiling XML files.
If you need to make corrections to typographical errors, or other minor
-editing duties, feel free to use any text editor to make the changes. SGML
+editing duties, feel free to use any text editor to make the changes. XML
is not rocket science -- simply make sure your text appears between
appropriate tags (like <para>This is a paragraph</para>) and we'll be fine.
If you are making more extensive changes, please ensure you at least validate
-your SGML before checking it in with something like:
- nsgmls -s Bugzilla-Guide.sgml
+your XML before checking it in with something like:
+ nsgmls -s $JADE_PUB/xml.dcl Bugzilla-Guide.xml
- When you validate, please validate the master document (Bugzilla-Guide.sgml)
+ When you validate, please validate the master document (Bugzilla-Guide.xml)
as well as the document you edited to ensure there are no critical errors.
The following errors are considered "normal" when validating with nsgmls:
DTDDECL catalog entries are not supported
"DOCTYPE" declaration not allowed in instance
- The reason these occur is that free sgml validators do not yet support
+ The reason these occur is that free sgml/xml validators do not yet support
the DTDDECL catalog entries, and I've included DOCTYPE declarations in
-entities referenced from Bugzilla-Guide.sgml so these entities can compile
+entities referenced from Bugzilla-Guide.xml so these entities can compile
individually, if necessary. I suppose I ought to comment them out at some
point, but for now they are convenient and don't hurt anything.
@@ -39,13 +37,13 @@ documentation. Please address comments and questions to the newsgroup:
news://news.mozilla.org/netscape/public/mozilla/webtools .
==========
-HOW TO SET UP YOUR OWN SGML EDITING ENVIRONMENT:
+HOW TO SET UP YOUR OWN XML EDITING ENVIRONMENT:
==========
-Trying to set up an SGML/XML Docbook editing environment the
+Trying to set up an XML Docbook editing environment the
first time can be a daunting task.
I use Linux-Mandrake, in part, because it has a fully-functional
-SGML/XML Docbook editing environment included as part of the
+XML Docbook editing environment included as part of the
distribution CD's. If you have easier instructions for how to
do this for a particular Linux distribution or platform, please
let the team know at the mailing list: mozilla-webtools@mozilla.org.
@@ -74,9 +72,10 @@ sgml-common
If you're getting these from RedHat, make sure you get the ones in the
rawhide area. The ones in the 7.2 distribution are too old and don't
-include the XML stuff.
+include the XML stuff. The packages distrubuted with RedHat 8.0 and 9
+and known to work.
-Download "ldp.dsl" from the Resources page on linuxdoc.org. This is the
+Download "ldp.dsl" from the Resources page on tldp.org. This is the
stylesheet I use to get the HTML and text output. It works well, and has a
nice, consistent look with the rest of the linuxdoc documents. You'll have to
adjust the paths in ldp.dsl at the top of the file to reflect the actual
@@ -92,6 +91,8 @@ dsssl>
Note the difference is the top one points to the HTML docbook stylesheet,
and the next one points to the PRINT docbook stylesheet.
+Also note that modifying ldp.dsl doesn't seem to be needed on RedHat 9.
+
You know, this sure looks awful involved. Anyway, once you have this in
place, add to your .bashrc:
export SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/etc/sgml/catalog
@@ -111,13 +112,16 @@ for tcsh users.
folders are anywhere else on your system (for example, the openjade version
might change if you get a new version at some point).
- I suggest xemacs for editing your SGML/XML Docbook documents. The darn
+ I suggest xemacs for editing your XML Docbook documents. The darn
thing just works, and generally includes PSGML mode by default. Not to
mention you can validate the SGML from right within it without having to
remember the command-line syntax for nsgml (not that it's that hard
anyway). If not, you can download psgml at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/psgml.
+ Another good editor is the latest releases of vim and gvim. Vim will
+recognize DocBook tags and give them a different color than unreconized tags.
+
==========
NOTES:
==========
@@ -125,15 +129,17 @@ NOTES:
Here are the commands I use to maintain this documentation.
You MUST have DocBook 4.1.2 set up correctly in order for this to work.
+ These commands can be run all at once using the ./makedocs.pl script.
+
To create HTML documentation:
bash$ cd html
bash$ jade -t sgml -i html -d $LDP_HOME/ldp.dsl\#html \
-$JADE_PUB/xml.dcl ../sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml
+$JADE_PUB/xml.dcl ../xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml
To create HTML documentation as a single big HTML file:
bash$ cd html
bash$ jade -V nochunks -t sgml -i html -d $LDP_HOME/ldp.dsl\#html \
-$JADE_PUB/xml.dcl ../sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml >Bugzilla-Guide.html
+$JADE_PUB/xml.dcl ../xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml >Bugzilla-Guide.html
To create TXT documentation as a single big TXT file:
bash$ cd txt
diff --git a/docs/makedocs.pl b/docs/makedocs.pl
index d9d1aa7b6..18fdf0a62 100644
--- a/docs/makedocs.pl
+++ b/docs/makedocs.pl
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ chdir dirname($0);
chdir 'html';
MakeDocs('separate HTML', "jade -t sgml -i html -d $LDP_HOME/ldp.dsl\#html " .
- "$JADE_PUB/xml.dcl ../sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml");
+ "$JADE_PUB/xml.dcl ../xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml");
MakeDocs('big HTML', "jade -V nochunks -t sgml -i html -d " .
"$LDP_HOME/ldp.dsl\#html $JADE_PUB/xml.dcl " .
- "../sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml > Bugzilla-Guide.html");
+ "../xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml > Bugzilla-Guide.html");
MakeDocs('big text', "lynx -dump -justify=off -nolist Bugzilla-Guide.html " .
"> ../txt/Bugzilla-Guide.txt");
diff --git a/docs/sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml b/docs/sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml
deleted file mode 100644
index a9fcf097a..000000000
--- a/docs/sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,205 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" [
-
-<!-- Include macros -->
-<!ENTITY about SYSTEM "about.sgml">
-<!ENTITY conventions SYSTEM "conventions.sgml">
-<!ENTITY doc-index SYSTEM "index.sgml">
-<!ENTITY faq SYSTEM "faq.sgml">
-<!ENTITY gfdl SYSTEM "gfdl.sgml">
-<!ENTITY glossary SYSTEM "glossary.sgml">
-<!ENTITY installation SYSTEM "installation.sgml">
-<!ENTITY administration SYSTEM "administration.sgml">
-<!ENTITY using SYSTEM "using.sgml">
-<!ENTITY integration SYSTEM "integration.sgml">
-<!ENTITY future SYSTEM "future.sgml">
-<!ENTITY index SYSTEM "index.sgml">
-<!ENTITY database SYSTEM "database.sgml">
-<!ENTITY patches SYSTEM "patches.sgml">
-<!ENTITY variants SYSTEM "variants.sgml">
-<!ENTITY introduction SYSTEM "introduction.sgml">
-<!ENTITY revhistory SYSTEM "revhistory.sgml">
-
-<!-- Things to change for a stable release:
- * bz-ver to current stable
- * bz-nexver to next stable
- * bz-date to the release date
- * bz-devel to "IGNORE"
- - COMPILE DOCS AND CHECKIN -
- Also, tag and tarball before completing
- * bz-ver to devel version
- * bz-devel to "INCLUDE"
-
- For a devel release, simple bump bz-ver and bz-date
--->
-
-<!ENTITY bz-ver "2.17.4">
-<!ENTITY bz-nextver "2.18">
-<!ENTITY bz-date "2003-02-16">
-<!ENTITY % bz-devel "INCLUDE">
-
-<!ENTITY bz "http://www.bugzilla.org/">
-<!ENTITY bzg-auth "The Bugzilla Team">
-<!ENTITY bzg-bugs "<ulink url='http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&amp;component=Documentation'>Bugzilla Documentation</ulink>">
-<!ENTITY mysql "http://www.mysql.com/">
-<!ENTITY newest-perl-ver "5.8">
-
-<!-- For minimum versions -->
-<!ENTITY min-mysql-ver "3.23.41">
-<!ENTITY min-perl-ver "5.6">
-<!ENTITY min-template-ver "2.08">
-<!ENTITY min-file-temp-ver "1.804">
-<!ENTITY min-appconfig-ver "1.52">
-<!ENTITY min-text-wrap-ver "2001.0131">
-<!ENTITY min-file-spec-ver "0.82">
-<!ENTITY min-data-dumper-ver "any">
-<!ENTITY min-dbd-mysql-ver "2.1010">
-<!ENTITY min-dbi-ver "1.32">
-<!ENTITY min-date-format-ver "2.21">
-<!ENTITY min-cgi-ver "2.88">
-<!-- Optional modules -->
-<!ENTITY min-gd-ver "1.20">
-<!ENTITY min-gd-graph-ver "any">
-<!ENTITY min-gd-text-align-ver "any">
-<!ENTITY min-chart-base-ver "0.99c">
-<!ENTITY min-xml-parser-ver "any">
-<!ENTITY min-mime-parser-ver "any">
-
-]>
-
-
-<!-- Coding standards for this document
-
-* Other than the GFDL, please use the "section" tag instead of "sect1", "sect2", etc.
-* Use Entities to include files for new chapters in Bugzilla-Guide.sgml.
-* Try to use Entities for frequently-used passages of text as well.
-* Ensure all documents compile cleanly to HTML after modification.
-The warning, "DTDDECL catalog types not supported" is normal.
-* Try to index important terms wherever possible.
-* Use "glossterm" whenever you introduce a new term.
-* Follow coding standards at http://www.tldp.org, and
-check out the KDE guidelines (they are nice, too)
-http://i18n.kde.org/doc/markup.html
-* All tags should be lowercase (needsfix)
-* Please use sensible spacing. The comments at the very end of each
-file define reasonable defaults for PSGML mode in EMACS.
-Double-indent tags, use double spacing whenever possible, and
-try to avoid clutter and feel free to waste space in the code to make it more readable.
-
--->
-
-<book id="index">
-
-<!-- Header -->
-
- <bookinfo>
- <title>The Bugzilla Guide - &bz-ver; <![%bz-devel;[Development ]]>Release</title>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <firstname>Matthew</firstname>
- <othername>P.</othername>
- <surname>Barnson</surname>
- </author>
- <author>
- <firstname>Jacob</firstname>
- <surname>Steenhagen</surname>
- </author>
- <corpauthor>The Bugzilla Team</corpauthor>
- </authorgroup>
-
- <pubdate>&bz-date;</pubdate>
-
- <abstract>
- <para>
- This is the documentation for Bugzilla, the mozilla.org
- bug-tracking system.
- Bugzilla is an enterprise-class piece of software
- that powers issue-tracking for hundreds of
- organizations around the world, tracking millions of bugs.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This documentation is maintained in DocBook 4.1.2 XML format.
- Changes are best submitted as plain text or SGML diffs, attached
- to a bug filed in the &bzg-bugs; compontent.
- </para>
- <![%bz-devel;[
- <para>This is a development version of this guide. Information in it
- is subject to change before the &bz-nextver; release of this guide
- (which will correspond with the &bz-nextver; release of Bugzilla).
- </para>
- ]]>
- </abstract>
-
- <keywordset>
- <keyword>Bugzilla</keyword>
- <keyword>Guide</keyword>
- <keyword>installation</keyword>
- <keyword>FAQ</keyword>
- <keyword>administration</keyword>
- <keyword>integration</keyword>
- <keyword>MySQL</keyword>
- <keyword>Mozilla</keyword>
- <keyword>webtools</keyword>
- </keywordset>
- </bookinfo>
-
-<!-- About This Guide -->
-&about;
-
-<!-- Introduction -->
-&introduction;
-
-<!-- Using Bugzilla -->
-&using;
-
-<!-- Installing Bugzilla -->
-&installation;
-
-<!-- Administering Bugzilla -->
-&administration;
-
-<!-- Appendix: The Frequently Asked Questions -->
-&faq;
-
-<!-- Appendix: The Database Schema -->
-&database;
-
-<!-- Appendix: Custom Patches -->
-&patches;
-
-<!-- Appendix: Major Bugzilla Variants -->
-&variants;
-
-<!-- Appendix: GNU Free Documentation License -->
-&gfdl;
-
-<!-- Glossary -->
-&glossary;
-
-<!-- Index -->
-&index;
-
-
-</book>
-
-<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
-Local variables:
-mode: sgml
-sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
-sgml-auto-insert-required-elements:t
-sgml-balanced-tag-edit:t
-sgml-exposed-tags:nil
-sgml-general-insert-case:lower
-sgml-indent-data:t
-sgml-indent-step:2
-sgml-local-catalogs:nil
-sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
-sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
-sgml-namecase-general:t
-sgml-omittag:t
-sgml-parent-document:("Bugzilla-Guide.sgml" "book" "chapter")
-sgml-shorttag:t
-sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
-End:
--->
diff --git a/docs/sgml/about.sgml b/docs/sgml/about.sgml
deleted file mode 100644
index ccfcdd23e..000000000
--- a/docs/sgml/about.sgml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,227 +0,0 @@
-<!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" [
-<!ENTITY conventions SYSTEM "conventions.sgml"> ] > -->
-
-<chapter id="about">
-<title>About This Guide</title>
-
- <section id="copyright">
- <title>Copyright Information</title>
- <blockquote>
- <attribution>Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Matthew P. Barnson and &bzg-auth;</attribution>
- <para>
- Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
- document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
- License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the
- Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no
- Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of
- the license is included in <xref linkend="gfdl"/>.
- </para>
- </blockquote>
- <para>
- If you have any questions regarding this document, its
- copyright, or publishing this document in non-electronic form,
- please contact &bzg-auth;.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="disclaimer">
- <title>Disclaimer</title>
- <para>
- No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted.
- Use the concepts, examples, and other content at your own risk.
- This document may contain errors
- and inaccuracies that may damage your system, cause your partner
- to leave you, your boss to fire you, your cats to
- pee on your furniture and clothing, and global thermonuclear
- war. Proceed with caution.
- </para>
- <para>
- All copyrights are held by their respective owners, unless
- specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document
- should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any
- trademark or service mark.
- </para>
- <para>
- Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as
- endorsements, with the exception of the term "GNU/Linux". We
- wholeheartedly endorse the use of GNU/Linux in every situation
- where it is appropriate. It is an extremely versatile, stable,
- and robust operating system that offers an ideal operating
- environment for Bugzilla.
- </para>
- <para>
- You are strongly recommended to make a backup of your system
- before installing Bugzilla and at regular intervals thereafter.
- If you implement any suggestion in this Guide, implement this one!
- </para>
- <para>
- Although the Bugzilla development team has taken great care to
- ensure that all easily-exploitable bugs or options are
- documented or fixed in the code, security holes surely exist.
- Great care should be taken both in the installation and usage of
- this software. Carefully consider the implications of installing
- other network services with Bugzilla. The Bugzilla development
- team members, Netscape Communications, America Online Inc., and
- any affiliated developers or sponsors assume no liability for
- your use of this product. You have the source code to this
- product, and are responsible for auditing it yourself to ensure
- your security needs are met.
- </para>
- </section>
-
-<!-- Section 2: New Versions -->
-
- <section id="newversions">
- <title>New Versions</title>
- <para>
- This is the &bz-ver; version of The Bugzilla Guide. It is so named
- to match the current version of Bugzilla.
- <![%bz-devel;[
- This version of the guide, like its associated Bugzilla version is a
- development version. Information is subject to change between now and
- when &bz-nextver; is released.
- ]]>
- If you are
- reading this from any source other than those below, please
- check one of these mirrors to make sure you are reading an
- up-to-date version of the Guide.
- </para>
- <para>
- The newest version of this guide can always be found at <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org">bugzilla.org</ulink>; including
- documentation for past releases and the current development version.
- </para>
- <para>
- The documentation for the most recent stable release of Bugzilla can also
- be found at
- <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org">The Linux Documentation Project</ulink>.
- </para>
- <para>
- The latest version of this document can always be checked out via CVS.
- Please follow the instructions available at
- <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html">the Mozilla CVS page</ulink>,
- and check out the <filename>mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/</filename>
- subtree.
- </para>
- <para>
- The Bugzilla Guide is currently only available in English.
- If you would like to volunteer to translate it, please contact
- <ulink url="mailto:justdave@syndicomm.com">Dave Miller</ulink>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="credits">
- <title>Credits</title>
- <para>
- The people listed below have made enormous contributions to the
- creation of this Guide, through their writing, dedicated hacking efforts,
- numerous e-mail and IRC support sessions, and overall excellent
- contribution to the Bugzilla community:
- </para>
-
- <!-- TODO: This is evil... there has to be a valid way to get this look -->
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Matthew P. Barnson <email>mbarnson@sisna.com</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for the Herculaean task of pulling together the Bugzilla Guide
- and shepherding it to 2.14.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Terry Weissman <email>terry@mozilla.org</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for initially writing Bugzilla and creating the README upon
- which the UNIX installation documentation is largely based.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Tara Hernandez <email>tara@tequilarists.org</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for keeping Bugzilla development going strong after Terry left
- mozilla.org and for running landfill.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Dave Lawrence <email>dkl@redhat.com</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for providing insight into the key differences between Red
- Hat's customized Bugzilla, and being largely responsible for
- <xref linkend="variant-redhat"/>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Dawn Endico <email>endico@mozilla.org</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for being a hacker extraordinaire and putting up with Matthew's
- incessant questions and arguments on irc.mozilla.org in #mozwebtools
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Jacob Steenhagen <email>jake@bugzilla.org</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for taking over documentation during the 2.17 development
- period.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>
- Last but not least, all the members of the
- <ulink url="news://news.mozilla.org/netscape/public/mozilla/webtools"/>
- newsgroup. Without your discussions, insight, suggestions, and patches,
- this could never have happened.
- </para>
- <para>
- Thanks also go to the following people for significant contributions
- to this documentation (in alphabetical order):
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member>Andrew Pearson</member>
- <member>Ben FrantzDale</member>
- <member>Eric Hanson</member>
- <member>Gervase Markham</member>
- <member>Joe Robins</member>
- <member>Kevin Brannen</member>
- <member>Ron Teitelbaum</member>
- <member>Spencer Smith</member>
- <member>Zach Liption</member>
- </simplelist>
- .
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <!-- conventions used here (didn't want to give it a chapter of its own) -->
-&conventions;
- </chapter>
-
-<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
-Local variables:
-mode: sgml
-sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
-sgml-auto-insert-required-elements:t
-sgml-balanced-tag-edit:t
-sgml-exposed-tags:nil
-sgml-general-insert-case:lower
-sgml-indent-data:t
-sgml-indent-step:2
-sgml-local-catalogs:nil
-sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
-sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
-sgml-namecase-general:t
-sgml-omittag:t
-sgml-parent-document:("Bugzilla-Guide.sgml" "book" "chapter")
-sgml-shorttag:t
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-<chapter id="administration">
- <title>Administering Bugzilla</title>
-
- <section id="parameters">
- <title>Bugzilla Configuration</title>
-
- <para>Bugzilla is configured by changing various parameters, accessed
- from the "Edit parameters" link in the page footer. Here are
- some of the key parameters on that page. You should run down this
- list and set them appropriately after installing Bugzilla.</para>
-
- <indexterm>
- <primary>checklist</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <procedure>
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>maintainer</command>:
- The maintainer parameter is the email address of the person
- responsible for maintaining this
- Bugzilla installation. The address need not be that of a valid Bugzilla
- account.</para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>urlbase</command>:
- This parameter defines the fully qualified domain name and web
- server path to your Bugzilla installation.</para>
-
- <para>For example, if your Bugzilla query page is
- <filename>http://www.foo.com/bugzilla/query.cgi</filename>,
- set your <quote>urlbase</quote>
- to <filename>http://www.foo.com/bugzilla/</filename>.</para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>makeproductgroups</command>:
- This dictates whether or not to automatically create groups
- when new products are created.
- </para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>useentrygroupdefault</command>:
- Bugzilla products can have a group associated with them, so that
- certain users can only see bugs in certain products. When this
- parameter is set to <quote>on</quote>, this
- causes the initial group controls on newly created products
- to place all newly-created bugs in the group
- having the same name as the product immediately.
- After a product is initially created, the group controls
- can be further adjusted without interference by
- this mechanism.</para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>shadowdb</command>:
- You run into an interesting problem when Bugzilla reaches a
- high level of continuous activity. MySQL supports only table-level
- write locking. What this means is that if someone needs to make a
- change to a bug, they will lock the entire table until the operation
- is complete. Locking for write also blocks reads until the write is
- complete. Note that more recent versions of mysql support row level
- locking using different table types. These types are slower than the
- standard type, and Bugzilla does not yet take advantage of features
- such as transactions which would justify this speed decrease. The
- Bugzilla team are, however, happy to hear about any experiences with
- row level locking and Bugzilla</para>
-
- <para>The <quote>shadowdb</quote>
- parameter was designed to get around this limitation. While only a
- single user is allowed to write to a table at a time, reads can
- continue unimpeded on a read-only shadow copy of the database.
- Although your database size will double, a shadow database can cause
- an enormous performance improvement when implemented on extremely
- high-traffic Bugzilla databases.</para>
-
- <para>
- As a guide, mozilla.org began needing
- <quote>shadowdb</quote>
- when they reached around 40,000 Bugzilla users with several hundred
- Bugzilla bug changes and comments per day.</para>
-
- <para>The value of the parameter defines the name of the
- shadow bug database. You will need to set the host and port settings
- from the params page, and set up replication in your database server
- so that updates reach this readonly mirror. Consult your database
- documentation for more detail.</para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>shutdownhtml</command>:
-
- If you need to shut down Bugzilla to perform administration, enter
- some descriptive HTML here and anyone who tries to use Bugzilla will
- receive a page to that effect. Obviously, editparams.cgi will
- still be accessible so you can remove the HTML and re-enable Bugzilla.
- :-)
- </para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>passwordmail</command>:
-
- Every time a user creates an account, the text of
- this parameter (with substitutions) is sent to the new user along with
- their password message.</para>
-
- <para>Add any text you wish to the "passwordmail" parameter box. For
- instance, many people choose to use this box to give a quick training
- blurb about how to use Bugzilla at your site.</para>
- </step>
-
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>movebugs</command>:
-
- This option is an undocumented feature to allow moving bugs
- between separate Bugzilla installations. You will need to understand
- the source code in order to use this feature. Please consult
- <filename>movebugs.pl</filename> in your Bugzilla source tree for
- further documentation, such as it is.
- </para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>useqacontact</command>:
-
- This allows you to define an email address for each component, in
- addition
- to that of the default owner, who will be sent carbon copies of
- incoming bugs.</para>
- </step>
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>usestatuswhiteboard</command>:
- This defines whether you wish to have a free-form, overwritable field
- associated with each bug. The advantage of the Status Whiteboard is
- that it can be deleted or modified with ease, and provides an
- easily-searchable field for indexing some bugs that have some trait
- in common.
- </para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>whinedays</command>:
- Set this to the number of days you want to let bugs go
- in the NEW or REOPENED state before notifying people they have
- untouched new bugs. If you do not plan to use this feature, simply do
- not set up the whining cron job described in the installation
- instructions, or set this value to "0" (never whine).</para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>commenton*</command>:
- All these
- fields allow you to dictate what changes can pass without comment,
- and which must have a comment from the person who changed them.
- Often, administrators will allow users to add themselves to the CC
- list, accept bugs, or change the Status Whiteboard without adding a
- comment as to their reasons for the change, yet require that most
- other changes come with an explanation.</para>
-
- <para>Set the "commenton" options according to your site policy. It
- is a wise idea to require comments when users resolve, reassign, or
- reopen bugs at the very least.
- <note>
- <para>It is generally far better to require a developer comment
- when resolving bugs than not. Few things are more annoying to bug
- database users than having a developer mark a bug "fixed" without
- any comment as to what the fix was (or even that it was truly
- fixed!)</para>
- </note>
- </para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <command>supportwatchers</command>:
-
- Turning on this option allows users to ask to receive copies of
- all a particular other user's bug email. This is, of
- course, subject to the groupset restrictions on the bug; if the
- <quote>watcher</quote>
- would not normally be allowed to view a bug, the watcher cannot get
- around the system by setting herself up to watch the bugs of someone
- with bugs outside her privileges. They would still only receive email
- updates for those bugs she could normally view.</para>
- </step>
- </procedure>
- </section>
-
- <section id="useradmin">
- <title>User Administration</title>
-
- <section id="defaultuser">
- <title>Creating the Default User</title>
-
- <para>When you first run checksetup.pl after installing Bugzilla, it
- will prompt you for the administrative username (email address) and
- password for this "super user". If for some reason you delete
- the "super user" account, re-running checksetup.pl will again prompt
- you for this username and password.</para>
-
- <tip>
- <para>If you wish to add more administrative users, add them to
- the "admin" group and, optionally, add edit the tweakparams, editusers,
- creategroups, editcomponents, and editkeywords groups to add the
- entire admin group to those groups.
- </para>
- </tip>
- </section>
-
- <section id="manageusers">
- <title>Managing Other Users</title>
-
- <section id="createnewusers">
- <title>Creating new users</title>
-
- <para>Your users can create their own user accounts by clicking the
- "New Account" link at the bottom of each page (assuming they
- aren't logged in as someone else already.) However, should you
- desire to create user accounts ahead of time, here is how you do
- it.</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>After logging in, click the "Users" link at the footer of
- the query page, and then click "Add a new user".</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fill out the form presented. This page is self-explanatory.
- When done, click "Submit".</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>Adding a user this way will
- <emphasis>not</emphasis>
-
- send an email informing them of their username and password.
- While useful for creating dummy accounts (watchers which
- shuttle mail to another system, for instance, or email
- addresses which are a mailing list), in general it is
- preferable to log out and use the
- <quote>New Account</quote>
-
- button to create users, as it will pre-populate all the
- required fields and also notify the user of her account name
- and password.</para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="modifyusers">
- <title>Modifying Users</title>
-
- <para>To see a specific user, search for their login name
- in the box provided on the "Edit Users" page. To see all users,
- leave the box blank.</para>
-
- <para>You can search in different ways the listbox to the right
- of the text entry box. You can match by
- case-insensitive substring (the default),
- regular expression, or a
- <emphasis>reverse</emphasis>
- regular expression match, which finds every user name which does NOT
- match the regular expression. (Please see
- the <command>man regexp</command>
- manual page for details on regular expression syntax.)
- </para>
-
- <para>Once you have found your user, you can change the following
- fields:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Login Name</emphasis>:
- This is generally the user's full email address. However, if you
- have are using the emailsuffix Param, this may just be the user's
- login name. Note that users can now change their login names
- themselves (to any valid email address.)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Real Name</emphasis>: The user's real name. Note that
- Bugzilla does not require this to create an account.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Password</emphasis>:
- You can change the user's password here. Users can automatically
- request a new password, so you shouldn't need to do this often.
- If you want to disable an account, see Disable Text below.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Disable Text</emphasis>:
- If you type anything in this box, including just a space, the
- user is prevented from logging in, or making any changes to
- bugs via the web interface.
- The HTML you type in this box is presented to the user when
- they attempt to perform these actions, and should explain
- why the account was disabled.
- <warning>
- <para>Don't disable the administrator account!</para>
- </warning>
-
- <note>
- <para>The user can still submit bugs via
- the e-mail gateway, if you set it up, even if the disabled text
- field is filled in. The e-mail gateway should
- <emphasis>not</emphasis>
- be enabled for secure installations of Bugzilla.</para>
- </note>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>&lt;groupname&gt;</emphasis>:
- If you have created some groups, e.g. "securitysensitive", then
- checkboxes will appear here to allow you to add users to, or
- remove them from, these groups.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>canconfirm</emphasis>:
- This field is only used if you have enabled the "unconfirmed"
- status. If you enable this for a user,
- that user can then move bugs from "Unconfirmed" to a "Confirmed"
- status (e.g.: "New" status).</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>creategroups</emphasis>:
- This option will allow a user to create and destroy groups in
- Bugzilla.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>editbugs</emphasis>:
- Unless a user has this bit set, they can only edit those bugs
- for which they are the assignee or the reporter. Even if this
- option is unchecked, users can still add comments to bugs.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>editcomponents</emphasis>:
- This flag allows a user to create new products and components,
- as well as modify and destroy those that have no bugs associated
- with them. If a product or component has bugs associated with it,
- those bugs must be moved to a different product or component
- before Bugzilla will allow them to be destroyed.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>editkeywords</emphasis>:
- If you use Bugzilla's keyword functionality, enabling this
- feature allows a user to create and destroy keywords. As always,
- the keywords for existing bugs containing the keyword the user
- wishes to destroy must be changed before Bugzilla will allow it
- to die.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>editusers</emphasis>:
- This flag allows a user to do what you're doing right now: edit
- other users. This will allow those with the right to do so to
- remove administrator privileges from other users or grant them to
- themselves. Enable with care.</para>
- </listitem>
-
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>tweakparams</emphasis>:
- This flag allows a user to change Bugzilla's Params
- (using <filename>editparams.cgi</filename>.)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>&lt;productname&gt;</emphasis>:
- This allows an administrator to specify the products in which
- a user can see bugs. The user must still have the
- "editbugs" privilege to edit bugs in these products.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="programadmin">
- <title>Product, Component, Milestone, and Version Administration</title>
-
- <section id="products">
- <title>Products</title>
-
- <para>
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-product" baseform="product">
- Products</glossterm>
-
- are the broadest category in Bugzilla, and tend to represent real-world
- shipping products. E.g. if your company makes computer games,
- you should have one product per game, perhaps a "Common" product for
- units of technology used in multiple games, and maybe a few special
- products (Website, Administration...)</para>
-
- <para>Many of Bugzilla's settings are configurable on a per-product
- basis. The number of "votes" available to users is set per-product,
- as is the number of votes
- required to move a bug automatically from the UNCONFIRMED status to the
- NEW status.</para>
-
- <para>To create a new product:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Select "products" from the footer</para>
-
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Select the "Add" link in the bottom right</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Enter the name of the product and a description. The
- Description field may contain HTML.</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>Don't worry about the "Closed for bug entry", "Maximum Votes
- per person", "Maximum votes a person can put on a single bug",
- "Number of votes a bug in this Product needs to automatically get out
- of the UNCOMFIRMED state", and "Version" options yet. We'll cover
- those in a few moments.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="components">
- <title>Components</title>
-
- <para>Components are subsections of a Product. E.g. the computer game
- you are designing may have a "UI"
- component, an "API" component, a "Sound System" component, and a
- "Plugins" component, each overseen by a different programmer. It
- often makes sense to divide Components in Bugzilla according to the
- natural divisions of responsibility within your Product or
- company.</para>
-
- <para>
- Each component has a owner and (if you turned it on in the parameters),
- a QA Contact. The owner should be the primary person who fixes bugs in
- that component. The QA Contact should be the person who will ensure
- these bugs are completely fixed. The Owner, QA Contact, and Reporter
- will get email when new bugs are created in this Component and when
- these bugs change. Default Owner and Default QA Contact fields only
- dictate the
- <emphasis>default assignments</emphasis>;
- these can be changed on bug submission, or at any later point in
- a bug's life.</para>
-
- <para>To create a new Component:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Select the "Edit components" link from the "Edit product"
- page</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Select the "Add" link in the bottom right.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fill out the "Component" field, a short "Description",
- the "Initial Owner" and "Initial QA Contact" (if enabled.)
- The Component and Description fields may contain HTML;
- the "Initial Owner" field must be a login name
- already existing in the database.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="versions">
- <title>Versions</title>
-
- <para>Versions are the revisions of the product, such as "Flinders
- 3.1", "Flinders 95", and "Flinders 2000". Version is not a multi-select
- field; the usual practice is to select the most recent version with
- the bug.
- </para>
-
- <para>To create and edit Versions:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>From the "Edit product" screen, select "Edit Versions"</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>You will notice that the product already has the default
- version "undefined". Click the "Add" link in the bottom right.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Enter the name of the Version. This field takes text only.
- Then click the "Add" button.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="milestones">
- <title>Milestones</title>
-
- <para>Milestones are "targets" that you plan to get a bug fixed by. For
- example, you have a bug that you plan to fix for your 3.0 release, it
- would be assigned the milestone of 3.0.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>Milestone options will only appear for a Product if you turned
- on the "usetargetmilestone" Param in the "Edit Parameters" screen.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>To create new Milestones, set Default Milestones, and set
- Milestone URL:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Select "Edit milestones" from the "Edit product" page.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Select "Add" in the bottom right corner.
- text</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Enter the name of the Milestone in the "Milestone" field. You
- can optionally set the "sortkey", which is a positive or negative
- number (-255 to 255) that defines where in the list this particular
- milestone appears. This is because milestones often do not
- occur in alphanumeric order For example, "Future" might be
- after "Release 1.2". Select "Add".</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>From the Edit product screen, you can enter the URL of a
- page which gives information about your milestones and what
- they mean. </para>
-
- <tip>
- <para>If you want your milestone document to be restricted so
- that it can only be viewed by people in a particular Bugzilla
- group, the best way is to attach the document to a bug in that
- group, and make the URL the URL of that attachment.</para>
- </tip>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="voting">
- <title>Voting</title>
-
- <para>Voting allows users to be given a pot of votes which they can allocate
- to bugs, to indicate that they'd like them fixed.
- This allows developers to gauge
- user need for a particular enhancement or bugfix. By allowing bugs with
- a certain number of votes to automatically move from "UNCONFIRMED" to
- "NEW", users of the bug system can help high-priority bugs garner
- attention so they don't sit for a long time awaiting triage.</para>
-
- <para>To modify Voting settings:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Navigate to the "Edit product" screen for the Product you
- wish to modify</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Maximum Votes per person</emphasis>:
- Setting this field to "0" disables voting.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Maximum Votes a person can put on a single
- bug"</emphasis>:
- It should probably be some number lower than the
- "Maximum votes per person". Don't set this field to "0" if
- "Maximum votes per person" is non-zero; that doesn't make
- any sense.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Number of votes a bug in this product needs to
- automatically get out of the UNCONFIRMED state</emphasis>:
- Setting this field to "0" disables the automatic move of
- bugs from UNCONFIRMED to NEW.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Once you have adjusted the values to your preference, click
- "Update".</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="groups">
- <title>Groups and Group Security</title>
-
- <para>Groups allow the administrator
- to isolate bugs or products that should only be seen by certain people.
- The association between products and groups is controlled from
- the product edit page under <quote>Edit Group Controls.</quote>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If the makeproductgroups param is on, a new group will be automatically
- created for every new product.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- On the product edit page, there is a page to edit the
- <quote>Group Controls</quote>
- for a product and determine which groups are applicable, default,
- and mandatory for each product as well as controlling entry
- for each product and being able to set bugs in a product to be
- totally read-only unless some group restrictions are met.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For each group, it is possible to specify if membership in that
- group is...
- </para>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- required for bug entry,
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Not applicable to this product(NA),
- a possible restriction for a member of the
- group to place on a bug in this product(Shown),
- a default restriction for a member of the
- group to place on a bug in this product(Default),
- or a mandatory restriction to be placed on bugs
- in this product(Mandatory).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Not applicable by non-members to this product(NA),
- a possible restriction for a non-member of the
- group to place on a bug in this product(Shown),
- a default restriction for a non-member of the
- group to place on a bug in this product(Default),
- or a mandatory restriction to be placed on bugs
- in this product when entered by a non-member(Mandatory).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- required in order to make <emphasis>any</emphasis> change
- to bugs in this product <emphasis>including comments.</emphasis>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>To create Groups:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Select the <quote>groups</quote>
- link in the footer.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Take a moment to understand the instructions on the <quote>Edit
- Groups</quote> screen, then select the <quote>Add Group</quote> link.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fill out the <quote>Group</quote>, <quote>Description</quote>,
- and <quote>User RegExp</quote> fields.
- <quote>User RegExp</quote> allows you to automatically
- place all users who fulfill the Regular Expression into the new group.
- When you have finished, click <quote>Add</quote>.</para>
- <warning>
- <para>The User Regexp is a perl regexp and, if not anchored, will match
- any part of an address. So, if you do not want to grant access
- into 'mycompany.com' to 'badperson@mycompany.com.hacker.net', use
- '@mycompany\.com$' as the regexp.</para>
- </warning>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>After you add your new group, edit the new group. On the
- edit page, you can specify other groups that should be included
- in this group and which groups should be permitted to add and delete
- users from this group.</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>
- Note that group permissions are such that you need to be a member
- of <emphasis>all</emphasis> the groups a bug is in, for whatever
- reason, to see that bug. Similarly, you must be a member
- of <emphasis>all</emphasis> of the entry groups for a product
- to add bugs to a product and you must be a member
- of <emphasis>all</emphasis> of the canedit groups for a product
- in order to make <emphasis>any</emphasis> change to bugs in that
- product.
- </para>
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="security">
- <title>Bugzilla Security</title>
-
- <warning>
- <para>Poorly-configured MySQL and Bugzilla installations have
- given attackers full access to systems in the past. Please take these
- guidelines seriously, even for Bugzilla machines hidden away behind
- your firewall. 80% of all computer trespassers are insiders, not
- anonymous crackers.</para>
- </warning>
-
- <note>
- <para>These instructions must, of necessity, be somewhat vague since
- Bugzilla runs on so many different platforms. If you have refinements
- of these directions, please submit a bug to &bzg-bugs;.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <warning>
- <para>This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of every possible
- security issue regarding the tools mentioned in this section. There is
- no subsitute for reading the information written by the authors of any
- software running on your system.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <section id="security-networking">
- <title>TCP/IP Ports</title>
-
- <!-- TODO: Make this make sense (TCP/IP) -->
- <para>TCP/IP defines 65,000 some ports for trafic. Of those, Bugzilla
- only needs 1... 2 if you need to use features that require e-mail such
- as bug moving or the e-mail interface from contrib. You should audit
- your server and make sure that you aren't listening on any ports you
- don't need to be. You may also wish to use some kind of firewall
- software to be sure that trafic can only be recieved on ports you
- specify.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="security-mysql">
- <title>MySQL</title>
-
- <para>MySQL ships by default with many settings that should be changed.
- By defaults it allows anybody to connect from localhost without a
- password and have full administrative capabilities. It also defaults to
- not have a root password (this is <emphasis>not</emphasis> the same as
- the system root). Also, many installations default to running
- <application>mysqld</application> as the system root.
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Consult the documentation that came with your system for
- information on making <application>mysqld</application> run as an
- unprivleged user.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>You should also be sure to disable the anonymous user account
- and set a password for the root user. This is accomplished using the
- following commands:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-<prompt>bash$</prompt> mysql mysql
-<prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> DELETE FROM user WHERE user = '';
-<prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> UPDATE user SET password = password('<replaceable>new_password</replaceable>') WHERE user = 'root';
-<prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
- </programlisting>
- <para>From this point forward you will need to use
- <command>mysql -u root -p</command> and enter
- <replaceable>new_password</replaceable> when prompted when using the
- mysql client.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>If you run MySQL on the same machine as your httpd server, you
- should consider disabling networking from within MySQL by adding
- the following to your <filename>/etc/my.conf</filename>:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-[myslqd]
-# Prevent network access to MySQL.
-skip-networking
- </programlisting>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>You may also consider running MySQL, or even all of Bugzilla
- in a chroot jail; however, instructions for doing that are beyond
- the scope of this document.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </orderedlist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="security-daemon">
- <title>Daemon Accounts</title>
-
- <para>Many daemons, such as Apache's httpd and MySQL's mysqld default to
- running as either <quote>root</quote> or <quote>nobody</quote>. Running
- as <quote>root</quote> introduces obvious security problems, but the
- problems introduced by running everything as <quote>nobody</quote> may
- not be so obvious. Basically, if you're running every daemon as
- <quote>nobody</quote> and one of them gets comprimised, they all get
- comprimised. For this reason it is recommended that you create a user
- account for each daemon.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>You will need to set the <varname>webservergroup</varname> to
- the group you created for your webserver to run as in
- <filename>localconfig</filename>. This will allow
- <command>./checksetup.pl</command> to better adjust the file
- permissions on your Bugzilla install so as to not require making
- anything world-writable.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="security-access">
- <title>Web Server Access Controls</title>
-
- <para>There are many files that are placed in the Bugzilla directory
- area that should not be accessable from the web. Because of the way
- Bugzilla is currently layed out, the list of what should and should
- not be accessible is rather complicated. A new installation method
- is currently in the works which should solve this by allowing files
- that shouldn't be accessible from the web to be placed in directory
- outside the webroot. See
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44659">bug
- 44659</ulink> for more information.
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>In the main Bugzilla directory, you should:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block:
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member><filename>*.pl</filename></member>
- <member><filename>*localconfig*</filename></member>
- <member><filename>runtests.sh</filename></member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>But allow:
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member><filename>localconfig.js</filename></member>
- <member><filename>localconfig.rdf</filename></member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In <filename class="directory">data</filename>:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>But allow:
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member><filename>duplicates.rdf</filename></member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In <filename class="directory">data/webdot</filename>:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>If you use a remote webdot server:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>But allow
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member><filename>*.dot</filename></member>
- </simplelist>
- only for the remote webdot server</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Otherwise, if you use a local GraphViz:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>But allow:
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member><filename>*.png</filename></member>
- <member><filename>*.gif</filename></member>
- <member><filename>*.jpg</filename></member>
- <member><filename>*.map</filename></member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>And if you don't use any dot:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In <filename class="directory">Bugzilla</filename>:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In <filename class="directory">template</filename>:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <tip>
- <para>Bugzilla ships with the ability to generate
- <filename>.htaccess</filename> files instructing
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-apache">Apache</glossterm> which files
- should and should not be accessible. For more information, see
- <xref linkend="http-apache"/>.
- </para>
- </tip>
-
- <para>You should test to make sure that the files mentioned above are
- not accessible from the Internet, especially your
- <filename>localconfig</filename> file which contains your database
- password. To test, simply point your web browser at the file; for
- example, to test mozilla.org's installation, we'd try to access
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/localconfig"/>. You should
- get a <errorcode>403</errorcode> <errorname>Forbidden</errorname>
- error.
- </para>
-
- <caution>
- <para>Not following the instructions in this section, including
- testing, may result in sensitive information being globally
- accessible.
- </para>
- </caution>
-
- <tip>
- <para>You should check <xref linkend="http"/> to see if instructions
- have been included for your web server. You should also compare those
- instructions with this list to make sure everything is properly
- accounted for.
- </para>
- </tip>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="cust-templates">
- <title>Template Customization</title>
-
- <para>
- One of the large changes for 2.16 was the templatization of the
- entire user-facing UI, using the
- <ulink url="http://www.template-toolkit.org">Template Toolkit</ulink>.
- Administrators can now configure the look and feel of Bugzilla without
- having to edit Perl files or face the nightmare of massive merge
- conflicts when they upgrade to a newer version in the future.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Templatization also makes localized versions of Bugzilla possible,
- for the first time. In the future, a Bugzilla installation may
- have templates installed for multiple localizations, and select
- which ones to use based on the user's browser language setting.
- </para>
-
- <section>
- <title>What to Edit</title>
- <para>
- There are two different ways of editing of Bugzilla's templates,
- and which you use depends mainly on how you upgrade Bugzilla. The
- template directory structure is that there's a top level directory,
- <filename>template</filename>, which contains a directory for
- each installed localization. The default English templates are
- therefore in <filename>en</filename>. Underneath that, there
- is the <filename>default</filename> directory and optionally the
- <filename>custom</filename> directory. The <filename>default</filename>
- directory contains all the templates shipped with Bugzilla, whereas
- the <filename>custom</filename> directory does not exist at first and
- must be created if you want to use it.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The first method of making customizations is to directly edit the
- templates in <filename>template/en/default</filename>. This is
- probably the best method for small changes if you are going to use
- the CVS method of upgrading, because if you then execute a
- <command>cvs update</command>, any template fixes will get
- automagically merged into your modified versions.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you use this method, your installation will break if CVS conflicts
- occur.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The other method is to copy the templates into a mirrored directory
- structure under <filename>template/en/custom</filename>. The templates
- in this directory automatically override those in default.
- This is the technique you
- need to use if you use the overwriting method of upgrade, because
- otherwise your changes will be lost. This method is also better if
- you are using the CVS method of upgrading and are going to make major
- changes, because it is guaranteed that the contents of this directory
- will not be touched during an upgrade, and you can then decide whether
- to continue using your own templates, or make the effort to merge your
- changes into the new versions by hand.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you use this method, your installation may break if incompatible
- changes are made to the template interface. If such changes are made
- they will be documented in the release notes, provided you are using a
- stable release of Bugzilla. If you use using unstable code, you will
- need to deal with this one yourself, although if possible the changes
- will be mentioned before they occur in the deprecations section of the
- previous stable release's release notes.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Don't directly edit the compiled templates in
- <filename class="directory">data/template/*</filename> - your
- changes will be lost when Template Toolkit recompiles them.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>How To Edit Templates</title>
-
- <para>
- The syntax of the Template Toolkit language is beyond the scope of
- this guide. It's reasonably easy to pick up by looking at the current
- templates; or, you can read the manual, available on the
- <ulink url="http://www.template-toolkit.org">Template Toolkit home
- page</ulink>. However, you should particularly remember (for security
- reasons) to always HTML filter things which come from the database or
- user input, to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- However, one thing you should take particular care about is the need
- to properly HTML filter data that has been passed into the template.
- This means that if the data can possibly contain special HTML characters
- such as &lt;, and the data was not intended to be HTML, they need to be
- converted to entity form, ie &amp;lt;. You use the 'html' filter in the
- Template Toolkit to do this. If you fail to do this, you may open up
- your installation to cross-site scripting attacks.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Also note that Bugzilla adds a few filters of its own, that are not
- in standard Template Toolkit. In particular, the 'url_quote' filter
- can convert characters that are illegal or have special meaning in URLs,
- such as &amp;, to the encoded form, ie %26. This actually encodes most
- characters (but not the common ones such as letters and numbers and so
- on), including the HTML-special characters, so there's never a need to
- HTML filter afterwards.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Editing templates is a good way of doing a "poor man's custom fields".
- For example, if you don't use the Status Whiteboard, but want to have
- a free-form text entry box for "Build Identifier", then you can just
- edit the templates to change the field labels. It's still be called
- status_whiteboard internally, but your users don't need to know that.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- If you are making template changes that you intend on submitting back
- for inclusion in standard Bugzilla, you should read the relevant
- sections of the
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/developerguide.html">Developers'
- Guide</ulink>.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
-
- <section>
- <title>Template Formats</title>
-
- <para>
- Some CGIs have the ability to use more than one template. For
- example, buglist.cgi can output bug lists as RDF or two
- different forms of HTML (complex and simple). (Try this out
- by appending <filename>&amp;format=simple</filename> to a buglist.cgi
- URL on your Bugzilla installation.) This
- mechanism, called template 'formats', is extensible.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To see if a CGI supports multiple output formats, grep the
- CGI for "ValidateOutputFormat". If it's not present, adding
- multiple format support isn't too hard - see how it's done in
- other CGIs.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To make a new format template for a CGI which supports this,
- open a current template for
- that CGI and take note of the INTERFACE comment (if present.) This
- comment defines what variables are passed into this template. If
- there isn't one, I'm afraid you'll have to read the template and
- the code to find out what information you get.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Write your template in whatever markup or text style is appropriate.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You now need to decide what content type you want your template
- served as. Open up the <filename>localconfig</filename> file and find the
- <filename>$contenttypes</filename>
- variable. If your content type is not there, add it. Remember
- the three- or four-letter tag assigned to you content type.
- This tag will be part of the template filename.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Save the template as <filename>&lt;stubname&gt;-&lt;formatname&gt;.&lt;contenttypetag&gt;.tmpl</filename>.
- Try out the template by calling the CGI as
- <filename>&lt;cginame&gt;.cgi?format=&lt;formatname&gt;</filename> .
- </para>
- </section>
-
-
- <section>
- <title>Particular Templates</title>
-
- <para>
- There are a few templates you may be particularly interested in
- customizing for your installation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>index.html.tmpl</command>:
- This is the Bugzilla front page.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>global/header.html.tmpl</command>:
- This defines the header that goes on all Bugzilla pages.
- The header includes the banner, which is what appears to users
- and is probably what you want to edit instead. However the
- header also includes the HTML HEAD section, so you could for
- example add a stylesheet or META tag by editing the header.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>global/banner.html.tmpl</command>:
- This contains the "banner", the part of the header that appears
- at the top of all Bugzilla pages. The default banner is reasonably
- barren, so you'll probably want to customize this to give your
- installation a distinctive look and feel. It is recommended you
- preserve the Bugzilla version number in some form so the version
- you are running can be determined, and users know what docs to read.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>global/footer.html.tmpl</command>:
- This defines the footer that goes on all Bugzilla pages. Editing
- this is another way to quickly get a distinctive look and feel for
- your Bugzilla installation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>bug/create/user-message.html.tmpl</command>:
- This is a message that appears near the top of the bug reporting page.
- By modifying this, you can tell your users how they should report
- bugs.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>bug/process/midair.html.tmpl</command>:
- This is the page used if two people submit simultaneous changes to the
- same bug. The second person to submit their changes will get this page
- to tell them what the first person did, and ask if they wish to
- overwrite those changes or go back and revisit the bug. The default
- title and header on this page read "Mid-air collision detected!" If
- you work in the aviation industry, or other environment where this
- might be found offensive (yes, we have true stories of this happening)
- you'll want to change this to something more appropriate for your
- environment.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>bug/create/create.html.tmpl</command> and
- <command>bug/create/comment.txt.tmpl</command>:
- You may wish to get bug submitters to give certain bits of structured
- information, each in a separate input widget, for which there is not a
- field in the database. The bug entry system has been designed in an
- extensible fashion to enable you to define arbitrary fields and widgets,
- and have their values appear formatted in the initial
- Description, rather than in database fields. An example of this
- is the mozilla.org
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided">guided
- bug submission form</ulink>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To make this work, create a custom template for
- <filename>enter_bug.cgi</filename> (the default template, on which you
- could base it, is <filename>create.html.tmpl</filename>),
- and either call it <filename>create.html.tmpl</filename> or use a format and
- call it <filename>create-&lt;formatname&gt;.html.tmpl</filename>.
- Put it in the <filename class="directory">custom/bug/create</filename>
- directory. In it, add widgets for each piece of information you'd like
- collected - such as a build number, or set of steps to reproduce.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Then, create a template like
- <filename>custom/bug/create/comment.txt.tmpl</filename>, also named
- after your format if you are using one, which
- references the form fields you have created. When a bug report is
- submitted, the initial comment attached to the bug report will be
- formatted according to the layout of this template.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For example, if your enter_bug template had a field
- <programlisting>&lt;input type="text" name="buildid" size="30"&gt;</programlisting>
- and then your comment.txt.tmpl had
- <programlisting>BuildID: [% form.buildid %]</programlisting>
- then
- <programlisting>BuildID: 20020303</programlisting>
- would appear in the initial checkin comment.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="cust-change-permissions">
- <title>Change Permission Customization</title>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- This feature should be considered experimental; the Bugzilla code you
- will be changing is not stable, and could change or move between
- versions. Be aware that if you make modifications to it, you may have
- to re-make them or port them if Bugzilla changes internally between
- versions.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- Companies often have rules about which employees, or classes of employees,
- are allowed to change certain things in the bug system. For example,
- only the bug's designated QA Contact may be allowed to VERIFY the bug.
- Bugzilla has been
- designed to make it easy for you to write your own custom rules to define
- who is allowed to make what sorts of value transition.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For maximum flexibility, customizing this means editing Bugzilla's Perl
- code. This gives the administrator complete control over exactly who is
- allowed to do what. The relevant function is called
- <filename>CheckCanChangeField()</filename>,
- and is found in <filename>process_bug.cgi</filename> in your
- Bugzilla directory. If you open that file and grep for
- "sub CheckCanChangeField", you'll find it.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This function has been carefully commented to allow you to see exactly
- how it works, and give you an idea of how to make changes to it. Certain
- marked sections should not be changed - these are the "plumbing" which
- makes the rest of the function work. In between those sections, you'll
- find snippets of code like:
- <programlisting> # Allow the owner to change anything.
- if ($ownerid eq $whoid) {
- return 1;
- }</programlisting>
- It's fairly obvious what this piece of code does.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- So, how does one go about changing this function? Well, simple changes
- can be made just be removing pieces - for example, if you wanted to
- prevent any user adding a comment to a bug, just remove the lines marked
- "Allow anyone to change comments." And if you want the reporter to have
- no special rights on bugs they have filed, just remove the entire section
- which refers to him.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- More complex customizations are not much harder. Basically, you add
- a check in the right place in the function, i.e. after all the variables
- you are using have been set up. So, don't look at $ownerid before
- $ownerid has been obtained from the database. You can either add a
- positive check, which returns 1 (allow) if certain conditions are true,
- or a negative check, which returns 0 (deny.) E.g.:
- <programlisting> if ($field eq "qacontact") {
- if (UserInGroup("quality_assurance")) {
- return 1;
- }
- else {
- return 0;
- }
- }</programlisting>
- This says that only users in the group "quality_assurance" can change
- the QA Contact field of a bug. Getting more weird:
- <programlisting> if (($field eq "priority") &&
- ($vars->{'user'}{'login'} =~ /.*\@example\.com$/))
- {
- if ($oldvalue eq "P1") {
- return 1;
- }
- else {
- return 0;
- }
- }</programlisting>
- This says that if the user is trying to change the priority field,
- and their email address is @example.com, they can only do so if the
- old value of the field was "P1". Not very useful, but illustrative.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For a list of possible field names, look in
- <filename>data/versioncache</filename> for the list called
- <filename>@::log_columns</filename>. If you need help writing custom
- rules for your organization, ask in the newsgroup.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="upgrading">
- <title>Upgrading to New Releases</title>
-
- <para>Upgrading Bugzilla is something we all want to do from time to time,
- be it to get new features or pick up the latest security fix. How easy
- it is to update depends on a few factors.
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>If the new version is a revision or a new point release</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>How many, if any, local changes have been made</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>There are also three different methods to upgrade your installation.
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Using CVS (<xref linkend="upgrade-cvs"/>)</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Downloading a new tarball (<xref linkend="upgrade-tarball"/>)</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Applying the relevant patches (<xref linkend="upgrade-patches"/>)</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>Which options are available to you may depend on how large a jump
- you are making and/or your network configuration.
- </para>
-
- <para>Revisions are normally released to fix security vulnerabilities
- and are distinguished by an increase in the third number. For example,
- when 2.16.2 was released, it was a revision to 2.16.1.
- </para>
-
- <para>Point releases are normally released when the Bugzilla team feels
- that there has been a significant amount of progress made between the
- last point release and the current time. These are often proceeded by a
- stabilization period and release candidates, however the use of
- development versions or release candidates is beyond the scope of this
- document. Point releases can be distinguished by an increase in the
- second number, or minor version. For example, 2.16.2 is a newer point
- release than 2.14.5.
- </para>
-
- <para>The examples in this section are written as if you were updating
- to version 2.16.2. The procedures are the same regardless if you are
- updating to a new point release or a new revision. However, the chance
- of running into trouble increases when upgrading to a new point release,
- escpecially if you've made local changes.
- </para>
-
- <para>These examples also assume that your Bugzilla installation is at
- <filename>/var/www/html/bugzilla</filename>. If that is not the case,
- simply substitute the proper paths where appropriate.
- </para>
-
- <example id="upgrade-cvs">
- <title>Upgrading using CVS</title>
-
- <para>Every release of Bugzilla, whether it is a revision or a point
- release, is tagged in CVS. Also, every tarball we have distributed
- since version 2.12 has been primed for using CVS. This does, however,
- require that you are able to access cvs-mirror.mozilla.org on port
- 2401.
-
- <tip>
- <para>If you can do this, updating using CVS is probably the most
- painless method, especially if you have a lot of local changes.
- </para>
- </tip>
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-bash$ <command>cd /var/www/html/bugzilla</command>
-bash$ <command>cvs login</command>
-Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:2401/cvsroot
-CVS password: <command>anonymous</command>
-bash$ <command>cvs -q update -r BUGZILLA-2_16_2 -dP</command>
-P checksetup.pl
-P collectstats.pl
-P globals.pl
-P docs/rel_notes.txt
-P template/en/default/list/quips.html.tmpl
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- <caution>
- <para>If a line in the output from <command>cvs update</command>
- begins with a <computeroutput>C</computeroutput> that represents a
- file with local changes that CVS was unable to properly merge. You
- need to resolve these conflicts manually before Bugzilla (or at
- least the portion using that file) will be usable.
- </para>
- </caution>
-
- <note>
- <para>You also need to run <command>./checksetup.pl</command>
- before your Bugzilla upgrade will be complete.
- </para>
- </note>
- </para>
- </example>
-
- <example id="upgrade-tarball">
- <title>Upgrading using the tarball</title>
-
- <para>If you are unable or unwilling to use CVS, another option that's
- always available is to download the latest tarball. This is the most
- difficult option to use, especially if you have local changes.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-bash$ <command>cd /var/www/html</command>
-bash$ <command>wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/webtools/bugzilla-2.16.2.tar.gz</command>
-<emphasis>Output omitted</emphasis>
-bash$ <command>tar xzvf bugzilla-2.16.2.tar.gz</command>
-bugzilla-2.16.2/
-bugzilla-2.16.2/.cvsignore
-bugzilla-2.16.2/1x1.gif
-<emphasis>Output truncated</emphasis>
-bash$ <command>cd bugzilla-2.16.2</command>
-bash$ <command>cp ../bugzilla/localconfig* .</command>
-bash$ <command>cp -r ../bugzilla/data .</command>
-bash$ <command>cd ..</command>
-bash$ <command>mv bugzilla bugzilla.old</command>
-bash$ <command>mv bugzilla-2.16.2 bugzilla</command>
-bash$ <command>cd bugzilla</command>
-bash$ <command>./checksetup.pl</command>
-<emphasis>Output omitted</emphasis>
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- <warning>
- <para>The <command>cp</command> commands both end with periods which
- is a very important detail, it tells the shell that the destination
- directory is the current working directory. Also, the period at the
- beginning of the <command>./checksetup.pl</command> is important and
- can not be omitted.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <note>
- <para>You will now have to reapply any changes you have made to your
- local installation manually.
- </para>
- </note>
- </para>
- </example>
-
- <example id="upgrade-patches">
- <title>Upgrading using patches</title>
-
- <para>The Bugzilla team will normally make a patch file available for
- revisions to go from the most recent revision to the new one. You could
- also read the release notes and grab the patches attached to the
- mentioned bug, but it is safer to use the released patch file as
- sometimes patches get changed before they get checked in (for minor
- spelling fixes and the like). It is also theorectically possible to
- scour the fixed bug list and pick and choose which patches to apply
- from a point release, but this is not recommended either as what you'll
- end up with is a hodge podge Bugzilla that isn't really any version.
- This would also make it more difficult to upgrade in the future.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-bash$ <command>cd /var/www/html/bugzilla</command>
-bash$ <command>wget ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/webtools/bugzilla-2.16.1-to-2.16.2.diff.gz</command>
-<emphasis>Output omitted</emphasis>
-bash$ <command>gunzip bugzilla-2.16.1-to-2.16.2.diff.gz</command>
-bash$ <command>patch -p1 &lt; bugzilla-2.16.1-to-2.16.2.diff</command>
-patching file checksetup.pl
-patching file collectstats.pl
-patching file globals.pl
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- <caution>
- <para>If you do this, beware that this doesn't change the entires in
- your <filename id="dir">CVS</filename> directory so it may make
- updates using CVS (<xref linkend="upgrade-cvs"/>) more difficult in the
- future.
- </para>
- </caution>
- </para>
- </example>
-
- </section>
-
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- <title>Document Conventions</title>
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- <indexterm zone="conventions">
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- <para>This document uses the following conventions:</para>
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- <informaltable frame="none">
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- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>File Names</entry>
-
- <entry>
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-
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-
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- <command>command</command>
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-
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-
- <entry>
- <application>application</application>
- </entry>
- </row>
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- <entry>
- <foreignphrase>Prompt</foreignphrase>
-
- of users command under bash shell</entry>
-
- <entry>bash$</entry>
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- <entry>
- <foreignphrase>Prompt</foreignphrase>
-
- of root users command under bash shell</entry>
-
- <entry>bash#</entry>
- </row>
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- <entry>
- <foreignphrase>Prompt</foreignphrase>
-
- of user command under tcsh shell</entry>
-
- <entry>tcsh$</entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>Environment Variables</entry>
-
- <entry>
- <envar>VARIABLE</envar>
- </entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>Emphasized word</entry>
-
- <entry>
- <emphasis>word</emphasis>
- </entry>
- </row>
-
- <row>
- <entry>Term found in the glossary</entry>
-
- <entry>
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-bugzilla">Bugzilla</glossterm>
- </entry>
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-
- <entry>
- <programlisting><sgmltag class="starttag">para</sgmltag>
-Beginning and end of paragraph
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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"> -->
-<appendix id="database">
- <title>The Bugzilla Database</title>
-
- <note>
- <para>This document really needs to be updated with more fleshed out
- information about primary keys, interrelationships, and maybe some nifty
- tables to document dependencies. Any takers?</para>
- </note>
-
- <section id="dbmodify">
- <title>Modifying Your Running System</title>
-
- <para>Bugzilla optimizes database lookups by storing all relatively
- static information in the
- <filename>versioncache</filename> file, located in the
- <filename class="directory">data/</filename>
- subdirectory under your installation directory.</para>
-
- <para>If you make a change to the structural data in your database (the
- versions table for example), or to the
- <quote>constants</quote>
-
- encoded in <filename>defparams.pl</filename>, you will need to remove
- the cached content from the data directory (by doing a
- <quote>rm data/versioncache</quote>
-
- ), or your changes won't show up.</para>
-
- <para> <filename>versioncache</filename>
- gets automatically regenerated whenever it's more than
- an hour old, so Bugzilla will eventually notice your changes by itself,
- but generally you want it to notice right away, so that you can test
- things.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="dbdoc">
- <title>MySQL Bugzilla Database Introduction</title>
-
- <para>This information comes straight from my life. I was forced to learn
- how Bugzilla organizes database because of nitpicky requests from users
- for tiny changes in wording, rather than having people re-educate
- themselves or figure out how to work our procedures around the tool. It
- sucks, but it can and will happen to you, so learn how the schema works
- and deal with it when it comes.</para>
-
- <para>So, here you are with your brand-new installation of Bugzilla.
- You've got MySQL set up, Apache working right, Perl DBI and DBD talking
- to the database flawlessly. Maybe you've even entered a few test bugs to
- make sure email's working; people seem to be notified of new bugs and
- changes, and you can enter and edit bugs to your heart's content. Perhaps
- you've gone through the trouble of setting up a gateway for people to
- submit bugs to your database via email, have had a few people test it,
- and received rave reviews from your beta testers.</para>
-
- <para>What's the next thing you do? Outline a training strategy for your
- development team, of course, and bring them up to speed on the new tool
- you've labored over for hours.</para>
-
- <para>Your first training session starts off very well! You have a
- captive audience which seems enraptured by the efficiency embodied in
- this thing called "Bugzilla". You are caught up describing the nifty
- features, how people can save favorite queries in the database, set them
- up as headers and footers on their pages, customize their layouts,
- generate reports, track status with greater efficiency than ever before,
- leap tall buildings with a single bound and rescue Jane from the clutches
- of Certain Death!</para>
-
- <para>But Certain Death speaks up -- a tiny voice, from the dark corners
- of the conference room. "I have a concern," the voice hisses from the
- darkness, "about the use of the word 'verified'.</para>
-
- <para>The room, previously filled with happy chatter, lapses into
- reverential silence as Certain Death (better known as the Vice President
- of Software Engineering) continues. "You see, for two years we've used
- the word 'verified' to indicate that a developer or quality assurance
- engineer has confirmed that, in fact, a bug is valid. I don't want to
- lose two years of training to a new software product. You need to change
- the bug status of 'verified' to 'approved' as soon as possible. To avoid
- confusion, of course."</para>
-
- <para>Oh no! Terror strikes your heart, as you find yourself mumbling
- "yes, yes, I don't think that would be a problem," You review the changes
- with Certain Death, and continue to jabber on, "no, it's not too big a
- change. I mean, we have the source code, right? You know, 'Use the
- Source, Luke' and all that... no problem," All the while you quiver
- inside like a beached jellyfish bubbling, burbling, and boiling on a hot
- Jamaican sand dune...</para>
-
- <para>Thus begins your adventure into the heart of Bugzilla. You've been
- forced to learn about non-portable enum() fields, varchar columns, and
- tinyint definitions. The Adventure Awaits You!</para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Bugzilla Database Basics</title>
-
- <para>If you were like me, at this point you're totally clueless about
- the internals of MySQL, and if it weren't for this executive order from
- the Vice President you couldn't care less about the difference between
- a
- <quote>bigint</quote>
-
- and a
- <quote>tinyint</quote>
-
- entry in MySQL. I recommend you refer to the MySQL documentation,
- available at
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc.html">MySQL.com</ulink>
-
- . Below are the basics you need to know about the Bugzilla database.
- Check the chart above for more details.</para>
-
- <para>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>To connect to your database:</para>
-
- <para>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
-
- <command>mysql</command>
-
- <parameter>-u root</parameter>
- </para>
-
- <para>If this works without asking you for a password,
- <emphasis>shame on you</emphasis>
-
- ! You should have locked your security down like the installation
- instructions told you to. You can find details on locking down
- your database in the Bugzilla FAQ in this directory (under
- "Security"), or more robust security generalities in the
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/php/manual.php3?section=Privilege_system">MySQL
- searchable documentation</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>You should now be at a prompt that looks like this:</para>
-
- <para>
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt>
- </para>
-
- <para>At the prompt, if
- <quote>bugs</quote>
-
- is the name you chose in the
- <filename>localconfig</filename>
-
- file for your Bugzilla database, type:</para>
-
- <para>
- <prompt>mysql</prompt>
-
- <command>use bugs;</command>
- </para>
-
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Bugzilla Database Tables</title>
-
- <para>Imagine your MySQL database as a series of spreadsheets, and
- you won't be too far off. If you use this command:</para>
-
- <para>
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt>
- <command>show tables from bugs;</command>
- </para>
-
- <para>you'll be able to see the names of all the
- <quote>spreadsheets</quote>
- (tables) in your database.</para>
-
- <para>From the command issued above, ou should have some
- output that looks like this:
-<programlisting>
-+-------------------+
-| Tables in bugs |
-+-------------------+
-| attachments |
-| bugs |
-| bugs_activity |
-| cc |
-| components |
-| dependencies |
-| fielddefs |
-| groups |
-| keyworddefs |
-| keywords |
-| logincookies |
-| longdescs |
-| milestones |
-| namedqueries |
-| products |
-| profiles |
-| profiles_activity |
-| tokens |
-| versions |
-| votes |
-| watch |
-+-------------------+
-</programlisting>
-</para>
-
-<literallayout>
- Here's an overview of what each table does. Most columns in each table have
-descriptive names that make it fairly trivial to figure out their jobs.
-
-attachments: This table stores all attachments to bugs. It tends to be your
-largest table, yet also generally has the fewest entries because file
-attachments are so (relatively) large.
-
-bugs: This is the core of your system. The bugs table stores most of the
-current information about a bug, with the exception of the info stored in the
-other tables.
-
-bugs_activity: This stores information regarding what changes are made to bugs
-when -- a history file.
-
-cc: This tiny table simply stores all the CC information for any bug which has
-any entries in the CC field of the bug. Note that, like most other tables in
-Bugzilla, it does not refer to users by their user names, but by their unique
-userid, stored as a primary key in the profiles table.
-
-components: This stores the programs and components (or products and
-components, in newer Bugzilla parlance) for Bugzilla. Curiously, the "program"
-(product) field is the full name of the product, rather than some other unique
-identifier, like bug_id and user_id are elsewhere in the database.
-
-dependencies: Stores data about those cool dependency trees.
-
-fielddefs: A nifty table that defines other tables. For instance, when you
-submit a form that changes the value of "AssignedTo" this table allows
-translation to the actual field name "assigned_to" for entry into MySQL.
-
-groups: defines bitmasks for groups. A bitmask is a number that can uniquely
-identify group memberships. For instance, say the group that is allowed to
-tweak parameters is assigned a value of "1", the group that is allowed to edit
-users is assigned a "2", and the group that is allowed to create new groups is
-assigned the bitmask of "4". By uniquely combining the group bitmasks (much
-like the chmod command in UNIX,) you can identify a user is allowed to tweak
-parameters and create groups, but not edit users, by giving him a bitmask of
-"5", or a user allowed to edit users and create groups, but not tweak
-parameters, by giving him a bitmask of "6" Simple, huh?
- If this makes no sense to you, try this at the mysql prompt:
-mysql> select * from groups;
- You'll see the list, it makes much more sense that way.
-
-keyworddefs: Definitions of keywords to be used
-
-keywords: Unlike what you'd think, this table holds which keywords are
-associated with which bug id's.
-
-logincookies: This stores every login cookie ever assigned to you for every
-machine you've ever logged into Bugzilla from. Curiously, it never does any
-housecleaning -- I see cookies in this file I've not used for months. However,
-since Bugzilla never expires your cookie (for convenience' sake), it makes
-sense.
-
-longdescs: The meat of bugzilla -- here is where all user comments are stored!
-You've only got 2^24 bytes per comment (it's a mediumtext field), so speak
-sparingly -- that's only the amount of space the Old Testament from the Bible
-would take (uncompressed, 16 megabytes). Each comment is keyed to the
-bug_id to which it's attached, so the order is necessarily chronological, for
-comments are played back in the order in which they are received.
-
-milestones: Interesting that milestones are associated with a specific product
-in this table, but Bugzilla does not yet support differing milestones by
-product through the standard configuration interfaces.
-
-namedqueries: This is where everybody stores their "custom queries". Very
-cool feature; it beats the tar out of having to bookmark each cool query you
-construct.
-
-products: What products you have, whether new bug entries are allowed for the
-product, what milestone you're working toward on that product, votes, etc. It
-will be nice when the components table supports these same features, so you
-could close a particular component for bug entry without having to close an
-entire product...
-
-profiles: Ahh, so you were wondering where your precious user information was
-stored? Here it is! With the passwords in plain text for all to see! (but
-sshh... don't tell your users!)
-
-profiles_activity: Need to know who did what when to who's profile? This'll
-tell you, it's a pretty complete history.
-
-versions: Version information for every product
-
-votes: Who voted for what when
-
-watch: Who (according to userid) is watching who's bugs (according to their
-userid).
-
-
-===
-THE DETAILS
-===
-
- Ahh, so you're wondering just what to do with the information above? At the
-mysql prompt, you can view any information about the columns in a table with
-this command (where "table" is the name of the table you wish to view):
-
-mysql> show columns from table;
-
- You can also view all the data in a table with this command:
-
-mysql> select * from table;
-
- -- note: this is a very bad idea to do on, for instance, the "bugs" table if
-you have 50,000 bugs. You'll be sitting there a while until you ctrl-c or
-50,000 bugs play across your screen.
-
- You can limit the display from above a little with the command, where
-"column" is the name of the column for which you wish to restrict information:
-
-mysql> select * from table where (column = "some info");
-
- -- or the reverse of this
-
-mysql> select * from table where (column != "some info");
-
- Let's take our example from the introduction, and assume you need to change
-the word "verified" to "approved" in the resolution field. We know from the
-above information that the resolution is likely to be stored in the "bugs"
-table. Note we'll need to change a little perl code as well as this database
-change, but I won't plunge into that in this document. Let's verify the
-information is stored in the "bugs" table:
-
-mysql> show columns from bugs
-
- (exceedingly long output truncated here)
-| bug_status| enum('UNCONFIRMED','NEW','ASSIGNED','REOPENED','RESOLVED','VERIFIED','CLOSED')||MUL | UNCONFIRMED||
-
- Sorry about that long line. We see from this that the "bug status" column is
-an "enum field", which is a MySQL peculiarity where a string type field can
-only have certain types of entries. While I think this is very cool, it's not
-standard SQL. Anyway, we need to add the possible enum field entry
-'APPROVED' by altering the "bugs" table.
-
-mysql> ALTER table bugs CHANGE bug_status bug_status
- -> enum("UNCONFIRMED", "NEW", "ASSIGNED", "REOPENED", "RESOLVED",
- -> "VERIFIED", "APPROVED", "CLOSED") not null;
-
- (note we can take three lines or more -- whatever you put in before the
-semicolon is evaluated as a single expression)
-
-Now if you do this:
-
-mysql> show columns from bugs;
-
- you'll see that the bug_status field has an extra "APPROVED" enum that's
-available! Cool thing, too, is that this is reflected on your query page as
-well -- you can query by the new status. But how's it fit into the existing
-scheme of things?
- Looks like you need to go back and look for instances of the word "verified"
-in the perl code for Bugzilla -- wherever you find "verified", change it to
-"approved" and you're in business (make sure that's a case-insensitive search).
-Although you can query by the enum field, you can't give something a status
-of "APPROVED" until you make the perl changes. Note that this change I
-mentioned can also be done by editing checksetup.pl, which automates a lot of
-this. But you need to know this stuff anyway, right?
- </literallayout>
- </section>
- </section>
- </section>
-
-</appendix>
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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"> -->
-
-<appendix id="faq">
- <title>The Bugzilla FAQ</title>
-
- <para>
- This FAQ includes questions not covered elsewhere in the Guide.
- </para>
-
- <qandaset>
-
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-general">
- <title>General Questions</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-information">
- <para>
- Where can I find information about Bugzilla?</para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You can stay up-to-date with the latest Bugzilla
- information at <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/">
- http://www.bugzilla.org/</ulink>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-license">
- <para>
- What license is Bugzilla distributed under?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla is covered by the Mozilla Public License.
- See details at <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/">
- http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/</ulink>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-support">
- <para>
- How do I get commercial support for Bugzilla?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.org/consulting.html">http://bugzilla.org/consulting.html</ulink>
- is a list of people and companies who have asked us to list them
- as consultants for Bugzilla.
- </para>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.collab.net/">www.collab.net</ulink> offers
- Bugzilla as part of their standard offering to large projects.
- They do have some minimum fees that are pretty hefty, and generally
- aren't interested in small projects.
- </para>
- <para>
- There are several experienced
- Bugzilla hackers on the mailing list/newsgroup who are willing
- to make themselves available for generous compensation.
- Try sending a message to the mailing list asking for a volunteer.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-companies">
- <para>
- What major companies or projects are currently using Bugzilla
- for bug-tracking?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- There are <emphasis>dozens</emphasis> of major companies with public
- Bugzilla sites to track bugs in their products. A few include:
- <simplelist>
- <member>Netscape/AOL</member>
- <member>Mozilla.org</member>
- <member>NASA</member>
- <member>Red Hat Software</member>
- <member>SuSe Corp</member>
- <member>The Horde Project</member>
- <member>AbiSource</member>
- <member>Real Time Enterprises, Inc</member>
- <member>Eggheads.org</member>
- <member>Strata Software</member>
- <member>RockLinux</member>
- <member>Creative Labs (makers of SoundBlaster)</member>
- <member>The Apache Foundation</member>
- <member>The Gnome Foundation</member>
- <member>Ximian</member>
- <member>Linux-Mandrake</member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- <para>
- Suffice to say, there are more than enough huge projects using Bugzilla
- that we can safely say it's extremely popular.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-maintainers">
- <para>
- Who maintains Bugzilla?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- A
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/who_we_are.html">core team</ulink>,
- led by Dave Miller (justdave@netscape.com).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-compare">
- <para>
- How does Bugzilla stack up against other bug-tracking databases?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- We can't find any head-to-head comparisons of Bugzilla against
- other defect-tracking software. If you know of one, please
- get in touch. However, from the author's personal
- experience with other bug-trackers, Bugzilla offers
- superior performance on commodity hardware, better price
- (free!), more developer- friendly features (such as stored
- queries, email integration, and platform independence),
- improved scalability, open source code, greater
- flexibility, and superior ease-of-use.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you happen to be a commercial bug-tracker vendor, please
- step forward with a list of advantages your product has over
- Bugzilla. We'd be happy to include it in the "Competitors"
- section.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-bzmissing">
- <para>
- Why doesn't Bugzilla offer this or that feature or compatibility
- with this other tracking software?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- It may be that the support has not been built yet, or that you
- have not yet found it. Bugzilla is making tremendous strides in
- usability, customizability, scalability, and user interface. It
- is widely considered the most complete and popular open-source
- bug-tracking software in existence.
- </para>
- <para>
- That doesn't mean it can't use improvement!
- You can help the project along by either hacking a patch yourself
- that supports the functionality you require, or else submitting a
- "Request for Enhancement" (RFE) using the bug submission interface
- at <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla">bugzilla.mozilla.org</ulink>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-mysql">
- <para>
- Why MySQL? I'm interested in seeing Bugzilla run on
- Oracle/Sybase/Msql/PostgreSQL/MSSQL.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- MySQL was originally chosen because it is free, easy to install,
- and was available for the hardware Netscape intended to run it on.
- </para>
- <para>
- There is currently work in progress to make Bugzilla work on
- PostgreSQL and Sybase in the default distribution. You can track
- the progress of these initiatives in bugs <ulink
- url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304">98304</ulink>
- and <ulink
- url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173130">173130</ulink>
- respectively.
- </para>
- <para>
- Once both of these are done, adding support for additional
- database servers should be trivial.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-bonsaitools">
- <para>
- What is <filename>/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl</filename>?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla used to have the path to perl on the shebang line set to
- <filename>/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl</filename> because when
- Terry first started writing the code for mozilla.org he needed a
- version of Perl and other tools that were completely under his
- control. This location was abandoned for the 2.18 release in favor
- of the more sensible <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>. If you
- installed an older verion of Bugzilla and created the symlink we
- suggested, you can remove it now (provided that you don't have
- anything else, such as Bonsai, using it and you don't intend to
- reinstall an older version of Bugzilla).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-perlpath">
- <para>
- My perl is not located at <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>, is
- there an easy way to change it everywhere it needs to be changed?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes, the following bit of perl magic will change all the shebang
- lines. Be sure to change <filename>/usr/local/bin/perl</filename>
- to your path to the perl binary.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-perl -pi -e 's@#\!/usr/bin/perl@#\!/usr/local/bin/perl@' *cgi *pl
- </programlisting>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-cookie">
- <para>
- Is there an easy way to change the Bugzilla cookie name?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- At present, no.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-phb">
- <title>Managerial Questions</title>
- <para>
- <note>
- <para>
- Questions likely to be asked by managers. :-)
- </para>
- </note>
- </para>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-client">
- <para>
- Is Bugzilla web-based, or do you have to have specific software or
- a specific operating system on your machine?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- It is web and e-mail based. You can edit bugs by sending specially
- formatted email to a properly configured Bugzilla, or control via the web.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-integration">
- <para>
- Can Bugzilla integrate with
- Perforce (SCM software)?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes! You can find more information elsewhere in "The Bugzilla
- Guide" in the "Integration with Third-Party Products" section.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-projects">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla allow the user to track multiple projects?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Absolutely! You can track any number of Products that can each be
- composed of any number of Components.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-sorting">
- <para>
- If I am on many projects, and search for all bugs assigned to me, will
- Bugzilla list them for me and allow me to sort by project, severity etc?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-attachments">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla allow attachments (text, screenshots, URLs etc)? If yes,
- are there any that are NOT allowed?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes - any sort of attachment is allowed, although administrators can
- configure a maximum size.
- Bugzilla gives the user the option of either using the MIME-type
- supplied by the browser, choosing from a pre-defined list or
- manually typing any arbitrary MIME-type.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-priorities">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla allow us to define our own priorities and levels? Do we
- have complete freedom to change the labels of fields and format of them, and
- the choice of acceptable values?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes. However, modifying some fields, notably those related to bug
- progression states, also require adjusting the program logic to
- compensate for the change.
- </para>
- <para>
- There is no GUI for adding fields to Bugzilla at this
- time. You can follow development of this feature at
- <ulink
- url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91037">http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91037</ulink>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-reporting">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla provide any reporting features, metrics, graphs, etc? You
- know, the type of stuff that management likes to see. :)
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes. Look at <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/report.cgi">
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/report.cgi</ulink> for samples of what
- Bugzilla can do in reporting and graphing.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you can not get the reports you want from the included reporting
- scripts, it is possible to hook up a professional reporting package
- such as Crystal Reports using ODBC. If you choose to do this,
- beware that giving direct access to the database does contain some
- security implications. Even if you give read-only access to the
- bugs database it will bypass the secure bugs features of Bugzilla.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-email">
- <para>
- Is there email notification and if so, what do you see when you get an
- email?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Email notification is user-configurable. By default, the bug id and
- Summary of the bug report accompany each email notification, along with
- a list of the changes made.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-cclist">
- <para>
- Can email notification be set up to send to multiple
- people, some on the To List, CC List, BCC List etc?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-emailapp">
- <para>
- Do users have to have any particular
- type of email application?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla email is sent in plain text, the most compatible mail format
- on the planet.
- <note>
- <para>
- If you decide to use the bugzilla_email integration features
- to allow Bugzilla to record responses to mail with the associated bug,
- you may need to caution your users to set their mailer to "respond
- to messages in the format in which they were sent". For security reasons
- Bugzilla ignores HTML tags in comments, and if a user sends HTML-based
- email into Bugzilla the resulting comment looks downright awful.
- </para>
- </note>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-data">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla allow data to be imported and exported? If I had outsiders
- write up a bug report using a MS Word bug template, could that template be
- imported into "matching" fields? If I wanted to take the results of a query
- and export that data to MS Excel, could I do that?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla can output buglists as HTML (the default), CSV or RDF.
- The link for CSV can be found at the bottom of the buglist in HTML
- format. This CSV format can easily be imported into MS Excel or
- other spread-sheet applications.
- </para>
- <para>
- To use the RDF format of the buglist it is necessary to append a
- <computeroutput>&amp;ctype=rdf</computeroutput> to the URL. RDF
- is meant to be machine readable and thus it is assumed that the
- URL would be generated progmatically so there is no user visible
- link to this format.
- </para>
- <para>
- Currently the only script included with Bugzilla that can import
- data is <filename>importxml.pl</filename> which is intended to be
- used for importing the data generated by the XML ctype of
- <filename>show_bug.cgi</filename> in association with bug moving.
- Any other use is left as an exercise for the user.
- </para>
- <para>
- There are also scripts included in the <filename>contrib/</filename>
- directory for using e-mail to import information into Bugzilla,
- but these scripts are not currently supported and included for
- educational purposes.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-l10n">
- <para>
- Has anyone converted Bugzilla to another language to be used in other
- countries? Is it localizable?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes. For more information including available translated templates,
- see <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org/download.html#localizations"/>.
- The admin interfaces are still not included in these translated
- templates and is therefore still English only. Also, there may be
- issues with the charset not being declared. See <ulink
- url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126266">bug 126226</ulink>
- for more information.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-reports">
- <para>
- Can a user create and save reports? Can they do this in Word format?
- Excel format?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes. No. Yes (using the CSV format).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-searching">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla have the ability to search by word, phrase, compound
- search?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You have no idea. Bugzilla's query interface, particularly with the
- advanced Boolean operators, is incredibly versatile.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-midair">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla provide record locking when there is simultaneous access
- to the same bug? Does the second person get a notice that the bug is in use
- or how are they notified?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla does not lock records. It provides mid-air collision detection,
- and offers the offending user a choice of options to deal with the conflict.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-backup">
- <para>
- Are there any backup features provided?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- MySQL, the database back-end for Bugzilla, allows hot-backup of data.
- You can find strategies for dealing with backup considerations
- at <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/a/Backup.html">
- http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/a/Backup.html</ulink>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-livebackup">
- <para>
- Can users be on the system while a backup is in progress?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes. However, commits to the database must wait
- until the tables are unlocked. Bugzilla databases are typically
- very small, and backups routinely take less than a minute.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-maintenance">
- <para>
- What type of human resources are needed to be on staff to install and
- maintain Bugzilla? Specifically, what type of skills does the person need to
- have? I need to find out if we were to go with Bugzilla, what types of
- individuals would we need to hire and how much would that cost vs buying an
- "Out-of-the-Box" solution.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- If Bugzilla is set up correctly from the start, continuing maintenance
- needs are minimal and can be done easily using the web interface.
- </para>
- <para>
- Commercial Bug-tracking software typically costs somewhere upwards
- of $20,000 or more for 5-10 floating licenses. Bugzilla consultation
- is available from skilled members of the newsgroup. Simple questions
- are answered there and then.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-installtime">
- <para>
- What time frame are we looking at if we decide to hire people to install
- and maintain the Bugzilla? Is this something that takes hours or weeks to
- install and a couple of hours per week to maintain and customize or is this
- a multi-week install process, plus a full time job for 1 person, 2 people,
- etc?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- It all depends on your level of commitment. Someone with much Bugzilla
- experience can get you up and running in less than a day, and
- your Bugzilla install can run untended for years. If your
- Bugzilla strategy is critical to your business workflow, hire somebody
- with reasonable UNIX or Perl skills to handle your process management and
- bug-tracking maintenance &amp; customization.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-cost">
- <para>
- Is there any licensing fee or other fees for using Bugzilla? Any
- out-of-pocket cost other than the bodies needed as identified above?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- No. MySQL asks, if you find their product valuable, that you purchase
- a support contract from them that suits your needs.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-security">
- <title>Bugzilla Security</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-security-mysql">
- <para>
- How do I completely disable MySQL security if it's giving me problems
- (I've followed the instructions in the installation section of this guide)?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Run MySQL like this: "mysqld --skip-grant-tables". Please remember <emphasis>this
- makes MySQL as secure as taping a $100 to the floor of a football stadium
- bathroom for safekeeping.</emphasis>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-security-knownproblems">
- <para>
- Are there any security problems with Bugzilla?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The Bugzilla code has undergone a reasonably complete security audit,
- and user-facing CGIs run under Perl's taint mode. However,
- it is recommended that you closely examine permissions on your Bugzilla
- installation, and follow the recommended security guidelines found
- in The Bugzilla Guide.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-security-mysqluser">
- <para>
- I've implemented the security fixes mentioned in Chris Yeh's security
- advisory of 5/10/2000 advising not to run MySQL as root, and am running into
- problems with MySQL no longer working correctly.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This is a common problem, related to running out of file descriptors.
- Simply add "ulimit -n unlimited" to the script which starts
- mysqld.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-email">
- <title>Bugzilla Email</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-nomail">
- <para>
- I have a user who doesn't want to receive any more email from Bugzilla.
- How do I stop it entirely for this user?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The user should be able to set
- this in user email preferences (uncheck all boxes) or you can add
- their email address to the <filename>data/nomail</filename> file.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-testing">
- <para>
- I'm evaluating/testing Bugzilla, and don't want it to send email to
- anyone but me. How do I do it?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Edit the "newchangedmail" Param. Replace "To:" with "X-Real-To:",
- replace "Cc:" with "X-Real-CC:", and add a "To: &lt;youremailaddress&gt;".
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-whine">
- <para>
- I want whineatnews.pl to whine at something more, or other than, only new
- bugs. How do I do it?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Try Klaas Freitag's excellent patch for "whineatassigned" functionality.
- You can find it at <ulink
- url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6679"/>. This
- patch is against an older version of Bugzilla, so you must apply
- the diffs manually.
- <!-- TODO: Mention Joel's "Fine Whine" patch" -->
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-procmail">
- <para>
- I don't like/want to use Procmail to hand mail off to bug_email.pl.
- What alternatives do I have?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You can call bug_email.pl directly from your aliases file, with
- an entry like this:
- <blockquote>
- <para>
- bugzilla-daemon: "|/usr/local/bin/bugzilla/contrib/bug_email.pl"
- </para>
- </blockquote>
- However, this is fairly nasty and subject to problems; you also
- need to set up your smrsh (sendmail restricted shell) to allow
- it. In a pinch, though, it can work.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-mailif">
- <para>
- How do I set up the email interface to submit/change bugs via email?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You can find an updated README.mailif file in the contrib/ directory
- of your Bugzilla distribution that walks you through the setup.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-sendmailnow">
- <para>
- Email takes FOREVER to reach me from Bugzilla -- it's extremely slow.
- What gives?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- If you are using an alternate <glossterm linkend="gloss-mta">MTA</glossterm>,
- make sure the options given in <filename>Bugzilla/BugMail.pm</filename>
- and any other place where <application>sendmail</application> is called from
- are correct for your MTA. You should also ensure that the
- <option>sendmailnow</option> param is set to <literal>on</literal>.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you are using <application>sendmail</application>, try enabling
- <option>sendmailnow</option> in <filename>editparams.cgi</filename>.
- <!-- TODO provide more info about this, possibly a link to admin -->
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-nonreceived">
- <para>
- How come email from Bugzilla changes never reaches me?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Double-check that you have not turned off email in your user preferences.
- Confirm that Bugzilla is able to send email by visiting the "Log In"
- link of your Bugzilla installation and clicking the "Email me a password"
- button after entering your email address.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you never receive mail from Bugzilla, chances you do not have
- sendmail in "/usr/lib/sendmail". Ensure sendmail lives in, or is symlinked
- to, "/usr/lib/sendmail".
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-db">
- <title>Bugzilla Database</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-db-oracle">
- <para>
- I've heard Bugzilla can be used with Oracle?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Red Hat's old version of Bugzilla (based on 2.8) worked on Oracle.
- Red Hat's newer version (based on 2.17.1 and soon to be merged into
- the main distribution) runs on PostgreSQL. At this time we know of
- no recent ports of Bugzilla to Oracle but do intend to support it
- in the future (possibly the 2.20 time-frame).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-db-corrupted">
- <para>
- I think my database might be corrupted, or contain invalid entries. What
- do I do?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Run the <quote>sanity check</quote> utility
- (<filename>./sanitycheck.cgi</filename> in the
- Bugzilla_home directory) from your web browser to see! If
- it finishes without errors, you're
- <emphasis>probably</emphasis> OK. If it doesn't come back
- OK (i.e. any red letters), there are certain things
- Bugzilla can recover from and certain things it can't. If
- it can't auto-recover, I hope you're familiar with
- mysqladmin commands or have installed another way to
- manage your database. Sanity Check, although it is a good
- basic check on your database integrity, by no means is a
- substitute for competent database administration and
- avoiding deletion of data. It is not exhaustive, and was
- created to do a basic check for the most common problems
- in Bugzilla databases.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-db-manualedit">
- <para>
- I want to manually edit some entries in my database. How?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- There is no facility in Bugzilla itself to do this. It's also generally
- not a smart thing to do if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
- However, if you understand SQL you can use the <command>mysql</command>
- command line utility to manually insert, delete and modify table
- information. There are also more intuitive GUI clients available.
- Personal favorites of the Bugzilla team are <ulink
- url="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/">phpMyAdmin</ulink> and <ulink
- url="http://www.mysql.com/downloads/gui-mycc.html">MySQL Control
- Center</ulink>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-db-permissions">
- <para>
- I think I've set up MySQL permissions correctly, but Bugzilla still can't
- connect.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Try running MySQL from its binary: "mysqld --skip-grant-tables". This
- will allow you to completely rule out grant tables as the cause of your
- frustration. If this Bugzilla is able to connect at this point then
- you need to check that you have granted proper permission to the user
- password combo defined in <filename>localconfig</filename>.
- </para>
- <warning>
- <para>
- Running MySQL with this command line option is very insecure and
- should only be done when not connected to the external network
- as a troubleshooting step.
- </para>
- </warning>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-db-synchronize">
- <para>
- How do I synchronize bug information among multiple different Bugzilla
- databases?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Well, you can synchronize or you can move bugs. Synchronization will
- only work one way -- you can create a read-only copy of the database
- at one site, and have it regularly updated at intervals from the main
- database.
- </para>
- <para>
- MySQL has some synchronization features builtin to the latest releases.
- It would be great if someone looked into the possibilities there
- and provided a report to the newsgroup on how to effectively
- synchronize two Bugzilla installations.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you simply need to transfer bugs from one Bugzilla to another,
- checkout the "move.pl" script in the Bugzilla distribution.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-nt">
- <title>Bugzilla and Win32</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-nt-easiest">
- <para>
- What is the easiest way to run Bugzilla on Win32 (Win98+/NT/2K)?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Remove Windows. Install Linux. Install Bugzilla.
- The boss will never know the difference.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-nt-bundle">
- <para>
- Is there a "Bundle::Bugzilla" equivalent for Win32?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Not currently. Bundle::Bugzilla enormously simplifies Bugzilla
- installation on UNIX systems. If someone can volunteer to
- create a suitable PPM bundle for Win32, it would be appreciated.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-nt-mappings">
- <para>
- CGI's are failing with a "something.cgi is not a valid Windows NT
- application" error. Why?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Depending on what Web server you are using, you will have to configure
- the Web server to treat *.cgi files as CGI scripts. In IIS, you do this by
- adding *.cgi to the App Mappings with the &lt;path&gt;\perl.exe %s %s as the
- executable.
- </para>
- <para>
- Microsoft has some advice on this matter, as well:
- <blockquote>
- <para>
- "Set application mappings. In the ISM, map the extension for the script
- file(s) to the executable for the script interpreter. For example, you might
- map the extension .py to Python.exe, the executable for the Python script
- interpreter. Note For the ActiveState Perl script interpreter, the extension
- .pl is associated with PerlIS.dll by default. If you want to change the
- association of .pl to perl.exe, you need to change the application mapping.
- In the mapping, you must add two percent (%) characters to the end of the
- pathname for perl.exe, as shown in this example: c:\perl\bin\perl.exe %s %s"
- </para>
- </blockquote>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-nt-dbi">
- <para>
- I'm having trouble with the perl modules for NT not being able to talk to
- to the database.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Your modules may be outdated or inaccurate. Try:
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Hitting http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Download ActivePerl
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Go to your prompt
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Type 'ppm'
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <prompt>PPM></prompt> <command>install DBI DBD-mysql GD</command>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- I reckon TimeDate and Data::Dumper come with the activeperl. You can check
- the ActiveState site for packages for installation through PPM.
- <ulink url=" http://www.activestate.com/Packages/">
- http://www.activestate.com/Packages/</ulink>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-use">
- <title>Bugzilla Usage</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-changeaddress">
- <para>
- How do I change my user name (email address) in Bugzilla?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- New in 2.16 - go to the Account section of the Preferences. You will
- be emailed at both addresses for confirmation.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-query">
- <para>
- The query page is very confusing. Isn't there a simpler way to query?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The interface was simplified by a UI designer for 2.16. Further
- suggestions for improvement are welcome, but we won't sacrifice power for
- simplicity.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-accept">
- <para>
- I'm confused by the behavior of the "accept" button in the Show Bug form.
- Why doesn't it assign the bug to me when I accept it?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The current behavior is acceptable to bugzilla.mozilla.org and most
- users. You have your choice of patches
- to change this behavior, however.
- <simplelist>
- <member><ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=8029">
- Add a "and accept bug" radio button</ulink></member>
- <member><ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=8153">
- "Accept" button automatically assigns to you</ulink></member>
- </simplelist>
- Note that these patches are somewhat dated. You will need to apply
- them manually.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-attachment">
- <para>
- I can't upload anything into the database via the "Create Attachment"
- link. What am I doing wrong?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The most likely cause is a very old browser or a browser that is
- incompatible with file upload via POST. Download the latest Netscape,
- Microsoft, or Mozilla browser to handle uploads correctly.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-keyword">
- <para>
- How do I change a keyword in Bugzilla, once some bugs are using it?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- In the Bugzilla administrator UI, edit the keyword and it will let you
- replace the old keyword name with a new one. This will cause a problem
- with the keyword cache. Run sanitycheck.cgi to fix it.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-hacking">
- <title>Bugzilla Hacking</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-hacking-templatestyle">
- <para>
- What kind of style should I use for templatization?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Gerv and Myk suggest a 2-space indent, with embedded code sections on
- their own line, in line with outer tags. Like this:</para>
- <programlisting><![CDATA[
-<fred>
-[% IF foo %]
- <bar>
- [% FOREACH x = barney %]
- <tr>
- <td>
- [% x %]
- </td>
- <tr>
- [% END %]
-[% END %]
-</fred>
-]]></programlisting>
-
- <para> Myk also recommends you turn on PRE_CHOMP in the template
- initialization to prevent bloating of HTML with unnecessary whitespace.
- </para>
-
- <para>Please note that many have differing opinions on this subject,
- and the existing templates in Bugzilla espouse both this and a 4-space
- style. Either is acceptable; the above is preferred.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-hacking-bugzillabugs">
- <para>
- What bugs are in Bugzilla right now?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Try <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&amp;bug_status=ASSIGNED&amp;bug_status=REOPENED&amp;product=Bugzilla">
- this link</ulink> to view current bugs or requests for
- enhancement for Bugzilla.
- </para>
- <para>
- You can view bugs marked for &bz-nextver; release
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Bugzilla&amp;target_milestone=Bugzilla+&bz-nextver;">here</ulink>.
- This list includes bugs for the &bz-nextver; release that have already
- been fixed and checked into CVS. Please consult the
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/">
- Bugzilla Project Page</ulink> for details on how to
- check current sources out of CVS so you can have these
- bug fixes early!
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-hacking-priority">
- <para>
- How can I change the default priority to a null value? For instance, have the default
- priority be "---" instead of "P2"?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This is well-documented here: <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49862">
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49862</ulink>. Ultimately, it's as easy
- as adding the "---" priority field to your localconfig file in the appropriate area,
- re-running checksetup.pl, and then changing the default priority in your browser using
- "editparams.cgi".
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-hacking-patches">
- <para>
- What's the best way to submit patches? What guidelines should I follow?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <blockquote>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enter a bug into bugzilla.mozilla.org for the <quote><ulink
- url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla">Bugzilla</ulink></quote>
- product.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Upload your patch as a unified diff (having used "diff -u" against
- the <emphasis>current sources</emphasis> checked out of CVS),
- or new source file by clicking
- "Create a new attachment" link on the bug page you've just created, and
- include any descriptions of database changes you may make, into the bug
- ID you submitted in step #1. Be sure and click the "Patch" checkbox
- to indicate the text you are sending is a patch!
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Announce your patch and the associated URL
- (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX) for discussion in
- the newsgroup (netscape.public.mozilla.webtools). You'll get a really
- good, fairly immediate reaction to the implications of your patch,
- which will also give us an idea how well-received the change would
- be.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If it passes muster with minimal modification, the person to whom
- the bug is assigned in Bugzilla is responsible for seeing the patch
- is checked into CVS.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Bask in the glory of the fact that you helped write the most successful
- open-source bug-tracking software on the planet :)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </blockquote>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- </qandaset>
-
-</appendix>
-
-
-<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
-Local variables:
-mode: sgml
-sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
-sgml-auto-insert-required-elements:t
-sgml-balanced-tag-edit:t
-sgml-exposed-tags:nil
-sgml-general-insert-case:lower
-sgml-indent-data:t
-sgml-indent-step:2
-sgml-local-catalogs:nil
-sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
-sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
-sgml-namecase-general:t
-sgml-omittag:t
-sgml-parent-document:("Bugzilla-Guide.sgml" "book" "chapter")
-sgml-shorttag:t
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-End:
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diff --git a/docs/sgml/filetemp.patch b/docs/sgml/filetemp.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fb70adce..000000000
--- a/docs/sgml/filetemp.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- File/Temp.pm.orig Thu Feb 6 16:26:00 2003
-+++ File/Temp.pm Thu Feb 6 16:26:23 2003
-@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@
- # eg CGI::Carp
- local $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {};
- local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {};
-+ local *CORE::GLOBAL::die = sub {};
- $bit = &$func();
- 1;
- };
-@@ -226,6 +227,7 @@
- # eg CGI::Carp
- local $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {};
- local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {};
-+ local *CORE::GLOBAL::die = sub {};
- $bit = &$func();
- 1;
- };
diff --git a/docs/sgml/gd-makefile.patch b/docs/sgml/gd-makefile.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ec35a23a..000000000
--- a/docs/sgml/gd-makefile.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- GD-1.33/Makefile.PL Fri Aug 4 16:59:22 2000
-+++ GD-1.33-darwin/Makefile.PL Tue Jun 26 01:29:32 2001
-@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
- warn "NOTICE: This module requires libgd 1.8.3 or higher (shared library version 4.X).\n";
-
- # =====> PATHS: CHECK AND ADJUST <=====
--my @INC = qw(-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gd);
--my @LIBPATH = qw(-L/usr/lib/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib );
-+my @INC = qw(-I/sw/include -I/sw/include/gd -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gd);
-+my @LIBPATH = qw(-L/usr/lib/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -L/sw/lib -L/usr/local/lib);
- my @LIBS = qw(-lgd -lpng -lz);
-
- # FEATURE FLAGS
-@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
-
- push @LIBS,'-lttf' if $TTF;
- push @LIBS,'-ljpeg' if $JPEG;
--push @LIBS, '-lm' unless $^O eq 'MSWin32';
-+push @LIBS, '-lm' unless ($^O =~ /^MSWin32|darwin$/);
-
- # FreeBSD 3.3 with libgd built from ports croaks if -lXpm is specified
- if ($^O ne 'freebsd' && $^O ne 'MSWin32') {
diff --git a/docs/sgml/gfdl.sgml b/docs/sgml/gfdl.sgml
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index fdfdb4bc5..000000000
--- a/docs/sgml/gfdl.sgml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,448 +0,0 @@
-<!-- <!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"> -->
-<appendix id="gfdl">
- <title>GNU Free Documentation License</title>
-
-<!-- - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) -->
-<!-- LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org" -->
-<!-- section>
- <title>GNU Free Documentation License</title -->
- <para>Version 1.1, March 2000</para>
-
- <blockquote>
- <para>Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place,
- Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and
- distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is
- not allowed.</para>
- </blockquote>
-
- <section label="0" id="gfdl-0">
- <title>PREAMBLE</title>
-
- <para>The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
- written document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the
- effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying
- it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily, this License
- preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their
- work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by
- others.</para>
-
- <para>This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative
- works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
- complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license
- designed for free software.</para>
-
- <para>We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for
- free software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
- program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
- software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals; it
- can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or whether
- it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License principally
- for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section label="1" id="gfdl-1">
- <title>APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS</title>
-
- <para>This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a
- notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under
- the terms of this License. The "Document", below, refers to any such
- manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is addressed
- as "you".</para>
-
- <para>A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the
- Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
- modifications and/or translated into another language.</para>
-
- <para>A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section
- of the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
- publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject
- (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
- within that overall subject. (For example, if the Document is in part a
- textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
- mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical connection
- with the subject or with related matters, or of legal, commercial,
- philosophical, ethical or political position regarding them.</para>
-
- <para>The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose
- titles are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the
- notice that says that the Document is released under this License.</para>
-
- <para>The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text that are
- listed, as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says
- that the Document is released under this License.</para>
-
- <para>A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
- represented in a format whose specification is available to the general
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- formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose
- markup has been designed to thwart or discourage subsequent modification
- by readers is not Transparent. A copy that is not "Transparent" is called
- "Opaque".</para>
-
- <para>Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
- ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML or
- XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple HTML
- designed for human modification. Opaque formats include PostScript, PDF,
- proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word
- processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or processing tools are not
- generally available, and the machine-generated HTML produced by some word
- processors for output purposes only.</para>
-
- <para>The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
- plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
- this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in formats
- which do not have any title page as such, "Title Page" means the text
- near the most prominent appearance of the work's title, preceding the
- beginning of the body of the text.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section label="2" id="gfdl-2">
- <title>VERBATIM COPYING</title>
-
- <para>You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
- commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
- copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to
- the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
- conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use technical
- measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the
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-<glossary id="glossary">
- <glossdiv>
- <title>0-9, high ascii</title>
-
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>.htaccess</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>Apache web server, and other NCSA-compliant web servers,
- observe the convention of using files in directories called
- <filename>.htaccess</filename>
-
- to restrict access to certain files. In Bugzilla, they are used
- to keep secret files which would otherwise
- compromise your installation - e.g. the
- <filename>localconfig</filename>
- file contains the password to your database.
- curious.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-a">
- <title>A</title>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-apache">
- <glossterm>Apache</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>In this context, Apache is the web server most commonly used
- for serving up Bugzilla
- pages. Contrary to popular belief, the apache web server has nothing
- to do with the ancient and noble Native American tribe, but instead
- derived its name from the fact that it was
- <quote>a patchy</quote>
- version of the original
- <acronym>NCSA</acronym>
- world-wide-web server.</para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <title>Useful Directives when configuring Bugzilla</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#addhandler">AddHandler</ulink></computeroutput></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Tell Apache that it's OK to run CGI scripts.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</ulink></computeroutput></term>
- <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options">Options</ulink></computeroutput></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>These directives are used to tell Apache many things about
- the directory they apply to. For Bugzilla's purposes, we need
- them to allow script execution and <filename>.htaccess</filename>
- overrides.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</ulink></computeroutput></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Used to tell Apache what files are indexes. If you can
- not add <filename>index.cgi</filename> to the list of valid files,
- you'll need to set <computeroutput>$index_html</computeroutput> to
- 1 in <filename>localconfig</filename> so
- <command>./checksetup.pl</command> will create an
- <filename>index.html</filename> that redirects to
- <filename>index.cgi</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#scriptinterpretersource">ScriptInterpreterSource</ulink></computeroutput></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Used when running Apache on windows so the shebang line
- doesn't have to be changed in every Bugzilla script.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>For more information about how to configure Apache for Bugzilla,
- see <xref linkend="http-apache"/>.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-b">
- <title>B</title>
-
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>Bug</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>A
- <quote>bug</quote>
-
- in Bugzilla refers to an issue entered into the database which has an
- associated number, assignments, comments, etc. Some also refer to a
- <quote>tickets</quote>
- or
- <quote>issues</quote>;
- in the context of Bugzilla, they are synonymous.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>Bug Number</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>Each Bugzilla bug is assigned a number that uniquely identifies
- that bug. The bug associated with a bug number can be pulled up via a
- query, or easily from the very front page by typing the number in the
- "Find" box.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-bugzilla">
- <glossterm>Bugzilla</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>Bugzilla is the world-leading free software bug tracking system.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-c">
- <title>C</title>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-cgi">
- <glossterm>Common Gateway Interface</glossterm>
- <acronym>CGI</acronym>
- <glossdef>
- <para><acronym>CGI</acronym> is an acronym for Common Gateway Interface. This is
- a standard for interfacing an external application with a web server. Bugzilla
- is an example of a <acronym>CGI</acronym> application.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-component">
- <glossterm>Component</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>A Component is a subsection of a Product. It should be a narrow
- category, tailored to your organization. All Products must contain at
- least one Component (and, as a matter of fact, creating a Product
- with no Components will create an error in Bugzilla).</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-cpan">
- <glossterm>
- <acronym>CPAN</acronym>
- </glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- <acronym>CPAN</acronym>
-
- stands for the
- <quote>Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</quote>.
- CPAN maintains a large number of extremely useful
- <glossterm>Perl</glossterm>
- modules - encapsulated chunks of code for performing a
- particular task.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-d">
- <title>D</title>
-
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>daemon</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>A daemon is a computer program which runs in the background. In
- general, most daemons are started at boot time via System V init
- scripts, or through RC scripts on BSD-based systems.
- <glossterm>mysqld</glossterm>,
- the MySQL server, and
- <glossterm>apache</glossterm>,
- a web server, are generally run as daemons.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-g">
- <title>G</title>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-groups">
- <glossterm>Groups</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>The word
- <quote>Groups</quote>
-
- has a very special meaning to Bugzilla. Bugzilla's main security
- mechanism comes by placing users in groups, and assigning those
- groups certain privileges to view bugs in particular
- <glossterm>Products</glossterm>
- in the
- <glossterm>Bugzilla</glossterm>
- database.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-j">
- <title>J</title>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-javascript">
- <glossterm>JavaScript</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>JavaScript is cool, we should talk about it.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-m">
- <title>M</title>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-mta">
- <glossterm>Message Transport Agent</glossterm>
- <acronym>MTA</acronym>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>A Message Transport Agent is used to control the flow of email
- on a system. Many unix based systems use
- <ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org">sendmail</ulink> which is what
- Bugzilla expects to find by default at <filename>/usr/sbin/sendmail</filename>.
- Many other MTA's will work, but they all require that the
- <option>sendmailnow</option> param be set to <literal>on</literal>.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-mysql">
- <glossterm>MySQL</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>MySQL is currently the required
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-rdbms">RDBMS</glossterm> for Bugzilla. MySQL
- can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com"/>. While you
- should familiarize yourself with all of the documentation, some high
- points are:
- </para>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Backup.html">Backup</ulink></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Methods for backing up your Bugzilla database.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Option_files.html">Option Files</ulink></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Information about how to configure MySQL using
- <filename>my.cnf</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Privilege_system.html">Privilege System</ulink></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Much more detailed information about the suggestions in
- <xref linkend="security-mysql"/>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-p">
- <title>P</title>
-
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm id="gloss-product">Product</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>A Product is a broad category of types of bugs, normally
- representing a single piece of software or entity. In general,
- there are several Components to a Product. A Product may define a
- group (used for security) for all bugs entered into
- its Components.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>Perl</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>First written by Larry Wall, Perl is a remarkable program
- language. It has the benefits of the flexibility of an interpreted
- scripting language (such as shell script), combined with the speed
- and power of a compiled language, such as C.
- <glossterm>Bugzilla</glossterm>
-
- is maintained in Perl.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-q">
- <title>Q</title>
-
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>QA</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- <quote>QA</quote>,
- <quote>Q/A</quote>, and
- <quote>Q.A.</quote>
- are short for
- <quote>Quality Assurance</quote>.
- In most large software development organizations, there is a team
- devoted to ensuring the product meets minimum standards before
- shipping. This team will also generally want to track the progress of
- bugs over their life cycle, thus the need for the
- <quote>QA Contact</quote>
-
- field in a bug.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-r">
- <title>R</title>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-rdbms">
- <glossterm>Relational DataBase Managment System</glossterm>
- <acronym>RDBMS</acronym>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>A relational database management system is a database system
- that stores information in tables that are related to each other.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-s">
- <title>S</title>
-
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>
- <acronym>SGML</acronym>
- </glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>
- <acronym>SGML</acronym>
-
- stands for
- <quote>Standard Generalized Markup Language</quote>.
- Created in the 1980's to provide an extensible means to maintain
- documentation based upon content instead of presentation,
- <acronym>SGML</acronym>
-
- has withstood the test of time as a robust, powerful language.
- <glossterm>
- <acronym>XML</acronym>
- </glossterm>
-
- is the
- <quote>baby brother</quote>
-
- of SGML; any valid
- <acronym>XML</acronym>
-
- document it, by definition, a valid
- <acronym>SGML</acronym>
-
- document. The document you are reading is written and maintained in
- <acronym>SGML</acronym>,
- and is also valid
- <acronym>XML</acronym>
-
- if you modify the Document Type Definition.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-t">
- <title>T</title>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-target-milestone" xreflabel="Target Milestone">
- <glossterm>Target Milestone</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>Target Milestones are Product goals. They are configurable on a
- per-Product basis. Most software development houses have a concept of
-
- <quote>milestones</quote>
-
- where the people funding a project expect certain functionality on
- certain dates. Bugzilla facilitates meeting these milestones by
- giving you the ability to declare by which milestone a bug will be
- fixed, or an enhancement will be implemented.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-tcl">
- <glossterm>Tool Command Language</glossterm>
- <acronym>TCL</acronym>
- <glossdef>
- <para>TCL is an open source scripting language available for Windows,
- Macintosh, and Unix based systems. Bugzilla 1.0 was written in TCL but
- never released. The first release of Bugzilla was 2.0, which was when
- it was ported to perl.
- </para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-
- <glossdiv id="gloss-z">
- <title>Z</title>
-
- <glossentry id="gloss-zarro">
- <glossterm>Zarro Boogs Found</glossterm>
-
- <glossdef>
- <para>This is just a goofy way of saying that there were no bugs
- found matching your query. When asked to explain this message,
- Terry had the following to say:
- </para>
-
- <blockquote>
- <attribution>Terry Weissman</attribution>
- <para>I've been asked to explain this ... way back when, when
- Netscape released version 4.0 of its browser, we had a release
- party. Naturally, there had been a big push to try and fix every
- known bug before the release. Naturally, that hadn't actually
- happened. (This is not unique to Netscape or to 4.0; the same thing
- has happened with every software project I've ever seen.) Anyway,
- at the release party, T-shirts were handed out that said something
- like "Netscape 4.0: Zarro Boogs". Just like the software, the
- T-shirt had no known bugs. Uh-huh.
- </para>
-
- <para>So, when you query for a list of bugs, and it gets no results,
- you can think of this as a friendly reminder. Of *course* there are
- bugs matching your query, they just aren't in the bugsystem yet...
- </para>
- </blockquote>
-
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-</glossary>
-
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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"> -->
-<chapter id="installation" xreflabel="Bugzilla Installation">
- <title>Installation</title>
-
- <section id="stepbystep" xreflabel="Bugzilla Installation Step-by-step">
- <title>Step-by-step Install</title>
-
- <section id="intstall-into">
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <para>Bugzilla has been successfully installed under Solaris, Linux,
- and Win32. Win32 is not yet officially supported, but many people
- have got it working fine.
- Please see
- <xref linkend="os-win32" />
- for further advice on getting Bugzilla to work on Microsoft
- Windows.</para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-package-list">
- <title>Package List</title>
-
- <note>
- <para> If you are running the very most recent
- version of Perl and MySQL (both the executables and development
- libraries) on your system, you can skip these manual installation
- steps for the Perl modules by using Bundle::Bugzilla; see
- <xref linkend="bundlebugzilla" />.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>The software packages necessary for the proper running of
- Bugzilla (with download links) are:
- <orderedlist>
-
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL database server</ulink>
- (&min-mysql-ver; or greater)
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.perl.org">Perl</ulink>
- (&min-perl-ver;, 5.6.1 is recommended if you wish to
- use Bundle::Bugzilla)
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
- <para>Perl Modules (minimum version):
- <orderedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.template-toolkit.org">Template</ulink>
- (v&min-template-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/lib/File/Temp.html">
- File::Temp</ulink>
- (&min-file-temp-ver;) (Prerequisite for Template)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/AppConfig/">AppConfig
- </ulink>
- (&min-appconfig-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/MUIR/modules/Text-Tabs%2BWrap-2001.0131.tar.gz">Text::Wrap</ulink>
- (&min-text-wrap-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=File-Spec">File::Spec
- </ulink>
- (&min-file-spec-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/">Data::Dumper
- </ulink>
- (&min-data-dumper-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mysql/">DBD::mysql
- </ulink>
- (&min-dbd-mysql-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/">DBI</ulink>
- (&min-dbi-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/">Date::Parse
- </ulink>
- (&min-date-format-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/CGI/">CGI
- </ulink>
- (&min-cgi-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </orderedlist>
- and, optionally:
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GD/">GD</ulink>
- (&min-gd-ver;) for bug charting
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- GD::Graph
- (&min-gd-graph-ver;) for bug charting
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- GD::Text::Align
- (&min-gd-text-align-ver;) for bug charting
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Chart/">Chart::Base
- </ulink>
- (&min-chart-base-ver;) for bug charting
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- XML::Parser
- (&min-xml-parser-ver;) for the XML interface
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- MIME::Parser
- (&min-mime-parser-ver;) for the email interface
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-
-<listitem>
- <para>
- The web server of your choice.
- <ulink url="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</ulink>
- is highly recommended.
- </para>
-</listitem>
-
-
- </orderedlist>
-
- <warning>
- <para>It is a good idea, while installing Bugzilla, to ensure that there
- is some kind of firewall between you and the rest of the Internet,
- because your machine may be insecure for periods during the install.
- Many
- installation steps require an active Internet connection to complete,
- but you must take care to ensure that at no point is your machine
- vulnerable to an attack.</para>
- </warning>
-
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-mysql">
- <title>MySQL</title>
-
- <para>Visit the MySQL homepage at
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com">www.mysql.com</ulink>
- to grab and install the latest stable release of the server.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para> Many of the binary
- versions of MySQL store their data files in
- <filename>/var</filename>.
- On some Unix systems, this is part of a smaller root partition,
- and may not have room for your bug database. You can set the data
- directory as an option to <filename>configure</filename>
- if you build MySQL from source yourself.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para>If you install from something other than an RPM or Debian
- package, you will need to add <filename>mysqld</filename>
- to your init scripts so the server daemon will come back up whenever
- your machine reboots. Further discussion of UNIX init sequences are
- beyond the scope of this guide.
- </para>
-
- <para>Change your init script to start
- <filename>mysqld</filename>
- with the ability to accept large packets. By default,
- <filename>mysqld</filename>
- only accepts packets up to 64K long. This limits the size of
- attachments you may put on bugs. If you add
- <option>-O max_allowed_packet=1M</option>
- to the command that starts
- <filename>mysqld</filename>
- (or <filename>safe_mysqld</filename>),
- then you will be able to have attachments up to about 1 megabyte.
- There is a Bugzilla parameter for maximum attachment size;
- you should configure it to match the value you choose here.</para>
-
- <para>If you plan on running Bugzilla and MySQL on the same machine,
- consider using the
- <option>--skip-networking</option>
- option in the init script. This enhances security by preventing
- network access to MySQL.</para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-perl">
- <title>Perl</title>
-
- <para>Any machine that doesn't have Perl on it is a sad machine indeed.
- Perl can be got in source form from
- <ulink url="http://www.perl.com">perl.com</ulink> for the rare
- *nix systems which don't have it.
- Although Bugzilla runs with perl &min-perl-ver;,
- it's a good idea to be up to the very latest version
- if you can when running Bugzilla. As of this writing, that is Perl
- version &newest-perl-ver;.</para>
-
- <tip id="bundlebugzilla"
- xreflabel="Using Bundle::Bugzilla instead of manually installing Perl modules">
-
- <para>You can skip the following Perl module installation steps by
- installing
- <productname>Bundle::Bugzilla</productname>
-
- from
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-cpan">CPAN</glossterm>,
- which installs all required modules for you.</para>
-
- <para>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
-
- <command>perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Bundle::Bugzilla"'</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </para>
-
- <para>Bundle::Bugzilla doesn't include GD, Chart::Base, or
- MIME::Parser, which are not essential to a basic Bugzilla install. If
- installing this bundle fails, you should install each module
- individually to isolate the problem.</para>
- </tip>
- </section>
-
- <section id="perl-modules">
- <title>Perl Modules</title>
-
- <para>
- All Perl modules can be found on the
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org">Comprehensive Perl
- Archive Network</ulink> (CPAN). The
- CPAN servers have a real tendency to bog down, so please use mirrors.
- </para>
-
- <para>Quality, general Perl module installation instructions can be
- found on the CPAN website, but the easy thing to do is to just use the
- CPAN shell which does all the hard work for you.
- To use the CPAN shell to install a module:
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
- <command>perl -MCPAN -e 'install "&lt;modulename&gt;"'</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To do it the hard way:
- </para>
-
- <para>Untar the module tarball -- it should create its own
- directory</para>
-
- <para>CD to the directory just created, and enter the following
- commands:
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
-
- <command>perl Makefile.PL</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
-
- <command>make</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
-
- <command>make test</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
-
- <command>make install</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>Many people complain that Perl modules will not install for
- them. Most times, the error messages complain that they are missing a
- file in
- <quote>@INC</quote>.
- Virtually every time, this error is due to permissions being set too
- restrictively for you to compile Perl modules or not having the
- necessary Perl development libraries installed on your system.
- Consult your local UNIX systems administrator for help solving these
- permissions issues; if you
- <emphasis>are</emphasis>
- the local UNIX sysadmin, please consult the newsgroup/mailing list
- for further assistance or hire someone to help you out.</para>
- </warning>
-
-
- <section>
- <title>DBI</title>
-
- <para>The DBI module is a generic Perl module used the
- MySQL-related modules. As long as your Perl installation was done
- correctly the DBI module should be a breeze. It's a mixed Perl/C
- module, but Perl's MakeMaker system simplifies the C compilation
- greatly.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Data::Dumper</title>
-
- <para>The Data::Dumper module provides data structure persistence for
- Perl (similar to Java's serialization). It comes with later
- sub-releases of Perl 5.004, but a re-installation just to be sure it's
- available won't hurt anything.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>MySQL-related modules</title>
-
- <para>The Perl/MySQL interface requires a few mutually-dependent Perl
- modules. These modules are grouped together into the the
- Msql-Mysql-modules package.</para>
-
- <para>The MakeMaker process will ask you a few questions about the
- desired compilation target and your MySQL installation. For most of the
- questions the provided default will be adequate, but when asked if your
- desired target is the MySQL or mSQL packages, you should
- select the MySQL related ones. Later you will be asked if you wish to
- provide backwards compatibility with the older MySQL packages; you
- should answer YES to this question. The default is NO.</para>
-
- <para>A host of 'localhost' should be fine and a testing user of 'test'
- with a null password should find itself with sufficient access to run
- tests on the 'test' database which MySQL created upon installation.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>TimeDate modules</title>
-
- <para>Many of the more common date/time/calendar related Perl modules
- have been grouped into a bundle similar to the MySQL modules bundle.
- This bundle is stored on the CPAN under the name TimeDate.
- The component module we're most interested in is the Date::Format
- module, but installing all of them is probably a good idea anyway.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>GD (optional)</title>
-
- <para>The GD library was written by Thomas Boutell a long while ago to
- programatically generate images in C. Since then it's become the
- defacto standard for programmatic image construction. The Perl bindings
- to it found in the GD library are used on millions of web pages to
- generate graphs on the fly. That's what Bugzilla will be using it for
- so you must install it if you want any of the graphing to work.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>The Perl GD library requires some other libraries that may or
- may not be installed on your system, including
- <classname>libpng</classname>
- and
- <classname>libgd</classname>.
- The full requirements are listed in the Perl GD library README.
- If compiling GD fails, it's probably because you're
- missing a required library.</para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Chart::Base (optional)</title>
-
- <para>The Chart module provides Bugzilla with on-the-fly charting
- abilities. It can be installed in the usual fashion after it has been
- fetched from CPAN.
- Note that earlier versions that 0.99c used GIFs, which are no longer
- supported by the latest versions of GD.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Template Toolkit</title>
-
- <para>When you install Template Toolkit, you'll get asked various
- questions about features to enable. The defaults are fine, except
- that it is recommended you use the high speed XS Stash of the Template
- Toolkit, in order to achieve best performance.
- </para>
- </section>
-
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="sbs-http">
- <title>HTTP Server</title>
-
- <para>You have freedom of choice here, pretty much any web server that
- is capable of running <glossterm linkend="gloss-cgi">CGI</glossterm>
- scripts will work. <xref linkend="http"/> has more information about
- configuring web servers to work with Bugzilla.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>We strongly recommend Apache as the web server to use. The
- Bugzilla Guide installation instructions, in general, assume you are
- using Apache. If you have got Bugzilla working using another webserver,
- please share your experiences with us.</para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Bugzilla</title>
-
- <para>You should untar the Bugzilla files into a directory that you're
- willing to make writable by the default web server user (probably
- <quote>nobody</quote>).
- You may decide to put the files in the main web space for your
- web server or perhaps in
- <filename>/usr/local</filename>
- with a symbolic link in the web space that points to the Bugzilla
- directory.</para>
-
- <tip>
- <para>If you symlink the bugzilla directory into your Apache's HTML
- hierarchy, you may receive
- <errorname>Forbidden</errorname>
- errors unless you add the
- <quote>FollowSymLinks</quote>
- directive to the &lt;Directory&gt; entry for the HTML root
- in httpd.conf.</para>
- </tip>
-
- <para>Once all the files are in a web accessible directory, make that
- directory writable by your webserver's user. This is a temporary step
- until you run the post-install
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>
- script, which locks down your installation.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Setting Up the MySQL Database</title>
-
- <para>After you've gotten all the software installed and working you're
- ready to start preparing the database for its life as the back end to
- a high quality bug tracker.</para>
-
- <para>First, you'll want to fix MySQL permissions to allow access from
- Bugzilla. For the purpose of this Installation section, the Bugzilla
- username will be
- <quote>bugs</quote>, and will have minimal permissions.
- </para>
-
- <para>Begin by giving the MySQL root user a password. MySQL passwords are limited
- to 16 characters.
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
-
- <command>mysql -u root mysql</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </member>
-
- <member>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt>
-
- <command>UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('&lt;new_password'&gt;)
- WHERE user='root';</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </member>
-
- <member>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt>
-
- <command>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </member>
- </simplelist>
-
- From this point on, if you need to access MySQL as the MySQL root user,
- you will need to use
- <command>mysql -u root -p</command>
-
- and enter &lt;new_password&gt;. Remember that MySQL user names have
- nothing to do with Unix user names (login names).</para>
-
- <para>Next, we use an SQL <command>GRANT</command> command to create a
- <quote>bugs</quote>
-
- user, and grant sufficient permissions for checksetup.pl, which we'll
- use later, to work its magic. This also restricts the
- <quote>bugs</quote>
- user to operations within a database called
- <quote>bugs</quote>, and only allows the account to connect from
- <quote>localhost</quote>.
- Modify it to reflect your setup if you will be connecting from
- another machine or as a different user.</para>
-
- <para>Remember to set &lt;bugs_password&gt; to some unique password.
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt>
-
- <command>GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,INDEX,
- ALTER,CREATE,DROP,REFERENCES ON bugs.* TO bugs@localhost
- IDENTIFIED BY '&lt;bugs_password&gt;';</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </member>
-
- <member>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt>
-
- <command>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>If you are using MySQL 4, the bugs user also needs to be granted
- the LOCK TABLES and CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES permissions.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>
- </title>
-
- <para>Next, run the magic checksetup.pl script. (Many thanks to
- <ulink url="mailto:holgerschurig@nikocity.de">Holger Schurig </ulink>
- for writing this script!)
- This script is designed to make sure your MySQL database and other
- configuration options are consistent with the Bugzilla CGI files.
- It will make sure Bugzilla files and directories have reasonable
- permissions, set up the
- <filename>data</filename>
- directory, and create all the MySQL tables.
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
-
- <command>./checksetup.pl</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </member>
- </simplelist>
-
- The first time you run it, it will create a file called
- <filename>localconfig</filename>.</para>
-
- <para>This file contains a variety of settings you may need to tweak
- including how Bugzilla should connect to the MySQL database.</para>
-
- <para>The connection settings include:
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>server's host: just use
- <quote>localhost</quote>
- if the MySQL server is local</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>database name:
- <quote>bugs</quote>
- if you're following these directions</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>MySQL username:
- <quote>bugs</quote>
- if you're following these directions</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Password for the
- <quote>bugs</quote>
- MySQL account; (&lt;bugs_password&gt;) above</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
-
- <para>Once you are happy with the settings,
- <filename>su</filename> to the user
- your web server runs as, and re-run
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>. (Note: on some security-conscious
- systems, you may need to change the login shell for the webserver
- account before you can do this.)
- On this second run, it will create the database and an administrator
- account for which you will be prompted to provide information.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>The checksetup.pl script is designed so that you can run it at
- any time without causing harm. You should run it after any upgrade to
- Bugzilla.</para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Configuring Bugzilla</title>
- <para>
- You should run through the parameters on the Edit Parameters page
- (link in the footer) and set them all to appropriate values.
- They key parameters are documented in <xref linkend="parameters" />.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="extraconfig">
- <title>Optional Additional Configuration</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Dependency Charts</title>
-
- <para>As well as the text-based dependency graphs, Bugzilla also
- supports dependency graphing, using a package called 'dot'.
- Exactly how this works is controlled by the 'webdotbase' parameter,
- which can have one of three values:
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A complete file path to the command 'dot' (part of
- <ulink url="http://www.graphviz.org/">GraphViz</ulink>)
- will generate the graphs locally
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A URL prefix pointing to an installation of the webdot package will
- generate the graphs remotely
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A blank value will disable dependency graphing.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
-
- <para>So, to get this working, install
- <ulink url="http://www.graphviz.org/">GraphViz</ulink>. If you
- do that, you need to
- <ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_imap.html">enable
- server-side image maps</ulink> in Apache.
- Alternatively, you could set up a webdot server, or use the AT&amp;T
- public webdot server (the
- default for the webdotbase param). Note that AT&amp;T's server won't work
- if Bugzilla is only accessible using HARTS.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Bug Graphs</title>
-
- <para>As long as you installed the GD and Graph::Base Perl modules you
- might as well turn on the nifty Bugzilla bug reporting graphs.</para>
-
- <para>Add a cron entry like this to run
- <filename>collectstats.pl</filename>
- daily at 5 after midnight:
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <computeroutput>
- <prompt>bash#</prompt>
-
- <command>crontab -e</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </member>
-
- <member>
- <computeroutput>5 0 * * * cd &lt;your-bugzilla-directory&gt; ;
- ./collectstats.pl</computeroutput>
- </member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
-
- <para>After two days have passed you'll be able to view bug graphs from
- the Bug Reports page.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>The Whining Cron</title>
-
- <para>By now you have a fully functional Bugzilla, but what good are
- bugs if they're not annoying? To help make those bugs more annoying you
- can set up Bugzilla's automatic whining system to complain at engineers
- which leave their bugs in the NEW state without triaging them.
- </para>
- <para>
- This can be done by
- adding the following command as a daily crontab entry (for help on that
- see that crontab man page):
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <computeroutput>
- <command>cd &lt;your-bugzilla-directory&gt; ;
- ./whineatnews.pl</command>
- </computeroutput>
- </member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
-
- <tip>
- <para>Depending on your system, crontab may have several manpages.
- The following command should lead you to the most useful page for
- this purpose:
- <programlisting>
-man 5 crontab
- </programlisting>
- </para>
- </tip>
- </section>
-
- <section id="bzldap">
- <title>LDAP Authentication</title>
- <para>
- <warning>
- <para>This information on using the LDAP
- authentication options with Bugzilla is old, and the authors do
- not know of anyone who has tested it. Approach with caution.
- </para>
- </warning>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The existing authentication
- scheme for Bugzilla uses email addresses as the primary user ID, and a
- password to authenticate that user. All places within Bugzilla where
- you need to deal with user ID (e.g assigning a bug) use the email
- address. The LDAP authentication builds on top of this scheme, rather
- than replacing it. The initial log in is done with a username and
- password for the LDAP directory. This then fetches the email address
- from LDAP and authenticates seamlessly in the standard Bugzilla
- authentication scheme using this email address. If an account for this
- address already exists in your Bugzilla system, it will log in to that
- account. If no account for that email address exists, one is created at
- the time of login. (In this case, Bugzilla will attempt to use the
- "displayName" or "cn" attribute to determine the user's full name.)
- After authentication, all other user-related tasks are still handled by
- email address, not LDAP username. You still assign bugs by email
- address, query on users by email address, etc.
- </para>
-
- <para>Using LDAP for Bugzilla authentication requires the
- Mozilla::LDAP (aka PerLDAP) Perl module. The
- Mozilla::LDAP module in turn requires Netscape's Directory SDK for C.
- After you have installed the SDK, then install the PerLDAP module.
- Mozilla::LDAP and the Directory SDK for C are both
- <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/directory/">available for
- download</ulink> from mozilla.org.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Set the Param 'useLDAP' to "On" **only** if you will be using an LDAP
- directory for
- authentication. Be very careful when setting up this parameter; if you
- set LDAP authentication, but do not have a valid LDAP directory set up,
- you will not be able to log back in to Bugzilla once you log out. (If
- this happens, you can get back in by manually editing the data/params
- file, and setting useLDAP back to 0.)
- </para>
-
- <para>If using LDAP, you must set the
- three additional parameters: Set LDAPserver to the name (and optionally
- port) of your LDAP server. If no port is specified, it defaults to the
- default port of 389. (e.g "ldap.mycompany.com" or
- "ldap.mycompany.com:1234") Set LDAPBaseDN to the base DN for searching
- for users in your LDAP directory. (e.g. "ou=People,o=MyCompany") uids
- must be unique under the DN specified here. Set LDAPmailattribute to
- the name of the attribute in your LDAP directory which contains the
- primary email address. On most directory servers available, this is
- "mail", but you may need to change this.
- </para>
-
- <para>You can also try using <ulink url="http://www.openldap.org/">
- OpenLDAP</ulink> with Bugzilla, using any of a number of administration
- tools. You should apply the patch attached this bug:
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158630">
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158630</ulink>, then set
- the following object classes for your users:
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem><para>objectClass: person</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>objectClass: organizationalPerson</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>objectClass: inetOrgPerson</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>objectClass: top</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>objectClass: posixAccount</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>objectClass: shadowAccount</para></listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- Please note that this patch <emphasis>has not</emphasis> yet been
- accepted by the Bugzilla team, and so you may need to do some
- manual tweaking. That said, it looks like Net::LDAP is probably
- the way to go in the future.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="content-type"
- xreflabel="Preventing untrusted Bugzilla content from executing malicious Javascript code">
-
- <title>Preventing untrusted Bugzilla content from executing malicious
- Javascript code</title>
-
- <para>It is possible for a Bugzilla to execute malicious Javascript
- code. Due to internationalization concerns, we are unable to
- incorporate the code changes necessary to fulfill the CERT advisory
- requirements mentioned in
- <ulink
- url="http://www.cet.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_mitigation.html/#3">
- http://www.cet.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_mitigation.html/#3</ulink>.
- Executing the following code snippet from a UNIX command shell will
- rectify the problem if your Bugzilla installation is intended for an
- English-speaking audience. As always, be sure your Bugzilla
- installation has a good backup before making changes, and I recommend
- you understand what the script is doing before executing it.</para>
-
- <para>
- <programlisting>
-bash# perl -pi -e "s/Content-Type\: text\/html/Content-Type\: text\/html\; charset=ISO-8859-1/i" *.cgi *.pl
- </programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para>All this one-liner command does is search for all instances of
- <quote>Content-type: text/html</quote>
-
- and replaces it with
- <quote>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1</quote>
-
- . This specification prevents possible Javascript attacks on the
- browser, and is suggested for all English-speaking sites. For
- non-English-speaking Bugzilla sites, I suggest changing
- <quote>ISO-8859-1</quote>, above, to
- <quote>UTF-8</quote>.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>Using &lt;meta&gt; tags to set the charset is not
- recommended, as there's a bug in Netscape 4.x which causes pages
- marked up in this way to load twice. See
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126266">bug
- 126266</ulink> for more information including progress toward making
- bugzilla charset aware by default.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section id="directoryindex" xreflabel="Modifying the Apache
- DirectoryIndex parameter to use index.cgi">
- <title>
- <filename>directoryindex</filename> for the Bugzilla default page.
- </title>
-
- <para>You should modify the &lt;DirectoryIndex&gt; parameter for
- the Apache virtual host running your Bugzilla installation to
- allow <filename>index.cgi</filename> as the index page for a
- directory, as well as the usual <filename>index.html</filename>,
- <filename>index.htm</filename>, and so forth. </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="mod_perl" xreflabel="Bugzilla and mod_perl">
- <title>
- Bugzilla and <filename>mod_perl</filename>
- </title>
- <para>Bugzilla is unsupported under mod_perl. Effort is underway
- to make it work cleanly in a mod_perl environment, but it is
- slow going.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="mod-throttle"
- xreflabel="Using mod_throttle to prevent Denial of Service attacks">
- <title>
- <filename>mod_throttle</filename>
-
- and Security</title>
-
- <para>It is possible for a user, by mistake or on purpose, to access
- the database many times in a row which can result in very slow access
- speeds for other users. If your Bugzilla installation is experiencing
- this problem , you may install the Apache module
- <filename>mod_throttle</filename>
-
- which can limit connections by ip-address. You may download this module
- at
- <ulink url="http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/">
- http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/</ulink>.
- Follow the instructions to install into your Apache install.
- <emphasis>This module only functions with the Apache web
- server!</emphasis>
- You may use the
- <command>ThrottleClientIP</command>
-
- command provided by this module to accomplish this goal. See the
- <ulink url="http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/">Module
- Instructions</ulink>
- for more information.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="os-specific">
- <title>OS Specific Installation Notes</title>
-
- <para>Many aspects of the Bugzilla installation can be affected by the
- the operating system you choose to install it on. Sometimes it can be made
- easier and others more difficult. This section will attempt to help you
- understand both the difficulties of running on specific operating systems
- and the utilities available to make it easier.
- </para>
-
- <para>If you have anything to add or notes for an operating system not
- covered, please file a bug in &bzg-bugs;.
- </para>
-
- <section id="os-win32">
- <title>Microsoft Windows</title>
-
- <para>Making Bugzilla work on windows is still a very painful processes.
- The Bugzilla Team is working to make it easier, but that goal is not
- considered a top priority. If you wish to run Bugzilla, we still
- recommend doing so on a Unix based system such as GNU/Linux. As of this
- writing, all members of the Bugzilla team and all known large installations
- run on Unix based systems.
- </para>
-
- <para>If after hearing all that, you have enough pain tolerance to attempt
- installing Bugzilla on Win32, here are some pointers.
- <![%bz-devel;[
- Because this is a development version of the guide, these instructions
- are subject to change without notice. In fact, the Bugzilla Team hopes
- they do as we would like to have Bugzilla resonabally close to "out of
- the box" compatibility by the 2.18 release.
- ]]>
- </para>
-
- <section id="win32-perl">
- <title>Win32 Perl</title>
-
- <para>Perl for Windows can be obtained from <ulink
- url="http://www.activestate.com/">ActiveState</ulink>. You should be
- able to find a compiled binary at <ulink
- url="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/">http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/</ulink>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="win32-perl-modules">
- <title>Perl Modules on Win32</title>
-
- <para>Bugzilla on Windows requires the same perl modules found in
- <xref linkend="install-package-list"/>. The main difference is that
- windows uses <command>ppm</command> instead of CPAN.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-C:\perl&gt; <command>ppm &lt;module name&gt;</command>
- </programlisting>
-
- <note>
- <para>The above syntax should work for all modules with the exception
- of Template Toolkit. The <ulink
- url="http://tt2.org/download.html#win32">Template Toolkit website</ulink>
- suggests using the instructions on <ulink
- url="http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/">OpenInteract's website</ulink>.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <tip>
- <para>A complete list of modules that can be installed using ppm can
- be found at <ulink url="http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus">http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus</ulink>.
- </para>
- </tip>
- </section>
-
- <section id="win32-code-changes">
- <title>Code changes required to run on win32</title>
-
- <para>Unfortunately, Bugzilla still doesn't run "out of the box" on
- Windows. There is work in progress to make this easier, but until that
- happens code will have to be modified. This section is an attempt to
- list the required changes. It is an attempt to be all inclusive, but
- there may be other changes required. If you find something is missing,
- please file a bug in &bzg-bugs;.
- </para>
-
- <section id="win32-code-checksetup">
- <title>Changes to <filename>checksetup.pl</filename></title>
-
- <para>In <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>, the line reading:</para>
-
- <programlisting>
-my $mysql_binaries = `which mysql`;
- </programlisting>
- <para>to</para>
- <programlisting>
-my $mysql_binaries = "D:\\mysql\\bin\\mysql";
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>And you'll also need to change:</para>
-
- <programlisting>
-my $webservergid = getgrnam($my_webservergroup)
- </programlisting>
- <para>to</para>
- <programlisting>
-my $webservergid = '8'
- </programlisting>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="win32-http">
- <title>Serving the web pages</title>
-
- <para>As is the case on Unix based systems, any web server should be
- able to handle Bugzilla; however, the Bugzilla Team still recommends
- Apache whenever asked. No matter what web server you choose, be sure
- to pay attention to the security notes in <xref linkend="security-access"/>.
- More information on configuring specific web servers can be found in
- <xref linkend="http"/>.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>If using Apache on windows, you can set the <ulink
- url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#scriptinterpretersource">ScriptInterpreterSource</ulink>
- directive in your Apache config, if you don't do this, you'll have
- to modify the first line of every script to contain your path to
- perl instead of <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="os-macosx">
- <title><productname>Mac OS X</productname></title>
-
- <!-- TODO: Clean me up... (Mac OS X) -->
- <para>There are a lot of common libraries and utilities out there that
- Apple did not include with Mac OS X, but which run perfectly well on it.
- The GD library, which Bugzilla needs to do bug graphs, is one of
- these.</para>
-
- <para>The easiest way to get a lot of these is with a program called
- Fink, which is similar in nature to the CPAN installer, but installs
- common GNU utilities. Fink is available from
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/"/>.</para>
-
- <para>Follow the instructions for setting up Fink. Once it's installed,
- you'll want to run the following as root:
- <command>fink install gd</command>
- </para>
-
- <para>It will prompt you for a number of dependencies, type 'y' and hit
- enter to install all of the dependencies. Then watch it work.</para>
-
- <para>To prevent creating conflicts with the software that Apple installs
- by default, Fink creates its own directory tree at /sw where it installs
- most of the software that it installs. This means your libraries and
- headers for libgd will be at /sw/lib and /sw/include instead of /usr/lib
- and /usr/local/include. Because of these changed locations for the
- libraries, the Perl GD module will not install directly via CPAN, because it
- looks for the specific paths instead of getting them from your
- environment. But there's a way around that :-)</para>
-
- <para>Instead of typing
- <quote>install GD</quote>
- at the
- <prompt>cpan&gt;</prompt>
- prompt, type
- <command>look GD</command>.
- This should go through the motions of downloading the latest version of
- the GD module, then it will open a shell and drop you into the build
- directory. Apply <ulink url="../sgml/gd-makefile.patch">this patch</ulink>
- to the Makefile.PL file (save the
- patch into a file and use the command
- <command>patch &lt; patchfile</command>.)
- </para>
-
- <para>Then, run these commands to finish the installation of the GD
- module:
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <command>perl Makefile.PL</command>
- </member>
-
- <member>
- <command>make</command>
- </member>
-
- <member>
- <command>make test</command>
- </member>
-
- <member>
- <command>make install</command>
- </member>
-
- <member>And don't forget to run
- <command>exit</command>
-
- to get back to CPAN.</member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="os-mandrake">
- <title>Linux-Mandrake 8.0</title>
-
- <para>Linux-Mandrake 8.0 includes every required and optional library
- for Bugzilla. The easiest way to install them is by using the
- <command>urpmi</command> utility. If you follow these commands, you
- should have everything you need for Bugzilla, and
- <command>./checksetup.pl</command> should not complain about any
- missing libraries. You may already have some of these installed.
- </para>
-
- <screen>
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> <command>urpmi perl-mysql</command>
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> <command>urpmi perl-chart</command>
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> <command>urpmi perl-gd</command>
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> <command>urpmi perl-MailTools</command> <co id="test-mailtools"/>
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> <command>urpmi apache-modules</command>
- </screen>
- <calloutlist>
- <callout arearefs="test-mailtools">
- <para>for Bugzilla e-mail integration</para>
- </callout>
- </calloutlist>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="http">
- <title>HTTP Server Configuration</title>
-
- <para>The Bugzilla Team recommends Apache when using Bugzilla, however, any web server
- that can be configured to run <glossterm linkend="gloss-cgi">CGI</glossterm> scripts
- should be able to handle Bugzilla. No matter what web server you choose, but
- especially if you choose something other than Apache, you should be sure to read
- <xref linkend="security-access"/>.
- </para>
-
- <para>The plan for this section is to eventually document the specifics of how to lock
- down permissions on individual web servers.
- </para>
-
- <section id="http-apache">
- <title>Apache <productname>httpd</productname></title>
-
- <para>As mentioned above, the Bugzilla Team recommends Apache for use
- with Bugzilla. You will have to make sure that Apache is properly
- configured to run the Bugzilla CGI scripts. You also need to make sure
- that the <filename>.htaccess</filename> files created by
- <command>./checksetup.pl</command> (shown in <xref linkend="http-apache-htaccess"/>
- for the curious) are allowed to override Apache's normal access
- permissions or else important password information may be exposed to the
- Internet.
- </para>
-
- <para>Many Apache installations are not configured to run scripts
- anywhere but in the <filename class="directory">cgi-bin</filename>
- directory; however, we recommend that Bugzilla not be installed in the
- <filename class="directory">cgi-bin</filename>, otherwise the static
- files such as images and <xref linkend="gloss-javascript"/>
- will not work correctly. To allow scripts to run in the normal
- web space, the following changes should be made to your
- <filename>httpd.conf</filename> file.
- </para>
-
- <para>To allow files with a .cgi extension to be run, make sure the
- following line exists and is uncommented:</para>
- <programlisting>
-AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>To allow <filename>.htaccess</filename> files to override
- permissions and .cgi files to run in the Bugzilla directory, make sure
- the following two lines are in a <computeroutput>Directory</computeroutput>
- directive that applies to the Bugzilla directory on your system
- (either the Bugzilla directory or one of its parents).
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-Options +ExecCGI
-AllowOverride Limit
- </programlisting>
-
- <note>
- <para>For more information on Apache and its directives, see the
- glossary entry on <xref linkend="gloss-apache"/>.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <example id="http-apache-htaccess">
- <title><filename>.htaccess</filename> files for Apache</title>
-
- <para><filename>$BUGZILLA_HOME/.htaccess</filename>
- <programlisting><![CDATA[
-# don't allow people to retrieve non-cgi executable files or our private data
-<FilesMatch ^(.*\.pl|.*localconfig.*|runtests.sh)$>
- deny from all
-</FilesMatch>
-<FilesMatch ^(localconfig.js|localconfig.rdf)$>
- allow from all
-</FilesMatch>
- ]]></programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para><filename>$BUGZILLA_HOME/data/.htaccess</filename>
- <programlisting><![CDATA[
-# nothing in this directory is retrievable unless overriden by an .htaccess
-# in a subdirectory; the only exception is duplicates.rdf, which is used by
-# duplicates.xul and must be loadable over the web
-deny from all
-<Files duplicates.rdf>
- allow from all
-</Files>
- ]]></programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para><filename>$BUGZILLA_HOME/data/webdot</filename>
- <programlisting><![CDATA[
-# Restrict access to .dot files to the public webdot server at research.att.com
-# if research.att.com ever changed their IP, or if you use a different
-# webdot server, you'll need to edit this
-<FilesMatch ^[0-9]+\.dot$>
- Allow from 192.20.225.10
- Deny from all
-</FilesMatch>
-
-# Allow access by a local copy of 'dot' to .png, .gif, .jpg, and
-# .map files
-<FilesMatch ^[0-9]+\.(png|gif|jpg|map)$>
- Allow from all
-</FilesMatch>
-
-# And no directory listings, either.
-Deny from all
- ]]></programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para><filename>$BUGZILLA_HOME/Bugzilla/.htaccess</filename>
- <programlisting>
-# nothing in this directory is retrievable unless overriden by an .htaccess
-# in a subdirectory
-deny from all
- </programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para><filename>$BUGZILLA_HOME/template/.htaccess</filename>
- <programlisting>
-# nothing in this directory is retrievable unless overriden by an .htaccess
-# in a subdirectory
-deny from all
- </programlisting>
- </para>
-
- </example>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="http-iis">
- <title>Microsoft <productname>Internet Information Services</productname></title>
-
- <para>If you need, or for some reason even want, to use Microsoft's
- <productname>Internet Information Services</productname> or
- <productname>Personal Web Server</productname> you should be able
- to. You will need to configure them to know how to run CGI scripts,
- however. This is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article
- <ulink url="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q245/2/25.asp">Q245225 </ulink>
- for <productname>Internet Information Services</productname> and
- <ulink url="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q231/9/98.asp">Q231998</ulink>
- for <productname>Personal Web Server</productname>.
- </para>
-
- <para>Also, and this can't be stressed enough, make sure that files such as
- <filename>localconfig</filename> and your <filename class="directory">data</filename>
- directory are secured as described in <xref linkend="security-access"/>.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="http-aol">
- <title>AOL Server</title>
-
- <para>Ben FrantzDale reported success using AOL Server with Bugzilla. He
- reported his experience and what appears below is based on that.
- </para>
-
- <para>AOL Server will have to be configured to run
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-cgi">CGI</glossterm> scripts, please consult
- the documentation that came with your server for more information on
- how to do this.
- </para>
-
- <para>Because AOL Server doesn't support <filename>.htaccess</filename>
- files, you'll have to create a <glossterm linkend="gloss-tcl">TCL</glossterm>
- script. You should create an <filename>aolserver/modules/tcl/filter.tcl</filename>
- file (the filename shouldn't matter) with the following contents (change
- <computeroutput>/bugzilla/</computeroutput> to the web-based path to
- your Bugzilla installation):
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/localconfig filter_deny
-ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/localconfig~ filter_deny
-ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/\#localconfig\# filter_deny
-ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/*.pl filter_deny
-ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/syncshadowdb filter_deny
-ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/runtests.sh filter_deny
-ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/data/* filter_deny
-ns_register_filter preauth GET /bugzilla/template/* filter_deny
-
-proc filter_deny { why } {
- ns_log Notice "filter_deny"
- return "filter_return"
-}
- </programlisting>
-
- <warning>
- <para>This probably doesn't account for all possible editor backup
- files so you may wish to add some additional variations of
- <filename>localconfig</filename>. For more information, see
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186383">bug
- 186383</ulink> or <ulink
- url="http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/6501">Bugtraq ID 6501</ulink>.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <note>
- <para>If you are using webdot from research.att.com (the default
- configuration for the <option>webdotbase</option> paramater), you
- will need to allow access to <filename>data/webdot/*.dot</filename>
- for the reasearch.att.com machine.
- </para>
- <para>If you are using a local installation of <ulink
- url="http://www.graphviz.org">GraphViz</ulink>, you will need to allow
- everybody to access <filename>*.png</filename>,
- <filename>*.gif</filename>, <filename>*.jpg</filename>, and
- <filename>*.map</filename> in the
- <filename class="directory">data/webdot</filename> directory.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="troubleshooting">
- <title>Troubleshooting</title>
-
- <para>This section gives solutions to common Bugzilla installation
- problems.
- </para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Bundle::Bugzilla makes me upgrade to Perl 5.6.1</title>
-
- <para>
- Try executing <command>perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN'</command>
- and then continuing.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Certain older versions of the CPAN toolset were somewhat naive about how
- to upgrade Perl modules. When a couple of modules got rolled into the core
- Perl distribution for 5.6.1, CPAN thought that the best way to get those
- modules up to date was to haul down the Perl distribution itself and
- build it. Needless to say, this has caused headaches for just about
- everybody. Upgrading to a newer version of CPAN with the
- commandline above should fix things.
- </para>
- </section>
-
-
- <section>
- <title>DBD::Sponge::db prepare failed</title>
-
- <para>
- The following error message may appear due to a bug in DBD::mysql
- (over which the Bugzilla team have no control):
- </para>
-
-<programlisting><![CDATA[ DBD::Sponge::db prepare failed: Cannot determine NUM_OF_FIELDS at D:/Perl/site/lib/DBD/mysql.pm line 248.
- SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x20fc444
- REFCNT = 1
- FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY)
-]]></programlisting>
-
- <para>
- To fix this, go to
- <filename>&lt;path-to-perl&gt;/lib/DBD/sponge.pm</filename>
- in your Perl installation and replace
- </para>
-
-<programlisting><![CDATA[ my $numFields;
- if ($attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'}) {
- $numFields = $attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'};
- } elsif ($attribs->{'NAME'}) {
- $numFields = @{$attribs->{NAME}};
-]]></programlisting>
-
- <para>
- by
- </para>
-
-<programlisting><![CDATA[ my $numFields;
- if ($attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'}) {
- $numFields = $attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'};
- } elsif ($attribs->{'NAMES'}) {
- $numFields = @{$attribs->{NAMES}};
-]]></programlisting>
-
- <para>
- (note the S added to NAME.)
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="paranoid-security">
- <title>cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue)</title>
-
- <para>If you are installing Bugzilla on SuSE Linux, or some other
- distributions with
- <quote>paranoid</quote>
- security options, it is possible that the checksetup.pl script may fail
- with the error:
-<programlisting><![CDATA[cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
-]]></programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This is because your
- <filename>/var/spool/mqueue</filename>
- directory has a mode of
- <quote>drwx------</quote>. Type
- <command>chmod 755
- <filename>/var/spool/mqueue</filename>
- </command>
- as root to fix this problem.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="trouble-filetemp">
- <title>Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro O_NOINHERIT</title>
-
- <para>This is caused by a bug in the version of
- <productname>File::Temp</productname> that is distributed with perl
- 5.6.0. Many minor variations of this error have been reported. Examples
- can be found in <xref linkend="trouble-filetemp-errors"/>.
- </para>
-
- <figure id="trouble-filetemp-errors">
- <title>Other File::Temp error messages</title>
-
- <programlisting>
-Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro O_NOINHERIT, used
-at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/File/Temp.pm line 208.
-
-Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro O_EXLOCK, used
-at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/File/Temp.pm line 210.
-
-Your vendor has not defined Fcntl macro O_TEMPORARY, used
-at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/File/Temp.pm line 233.
- </programlisting>
- </figure>
-
- <para>Numerous people have reported that upgrading to version 5.6.1
- or higher solved the problem for them. A less involved fix is to apply
- the patch in <xref linkend="trouble-filetemp-patch"/>. The patch is also
- available as a <ulink url="../sgml/filetemp.patch">patch file</ulink>.
- </para>
-
- <figure id="trouble-filetemp-patch">
- <title>Patch for File::Temp in Perl 5.6.0</title>
-
- <programlisting><![CDATA[
---- File/Temp.pm.orig Thu Feb 6 16:26:00 2003
-+++ File/Temp.pm Thu Feb 6 16:26:23 2003
-@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@
- # eg CGI::Carp
- local $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {};
- local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {};
-+ local *CORE::GLOBAL::die = sub {};
- $bit = &$func();
- 1;
- };
-@@ -226,6 +227,7 @@
- # eg CGI::Carp
- local $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {};
- local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {};
-+ local *CORE::GLOBAL::die = sub {};
- $bit = &$func();
- 1;
- };
- ]]></programlisting>
- </figure>
- </section>
- </section>
-</chapter>
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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" > -->
-<!-- Keep these tools listings in alphabetical order please. -MPB -->
-<section id="integration">
- <title>Integrating Bugzilla with Third-Party Tools</title>
-
- <section id="bonsai"
- xreflabel="Bonsai, the Mozilla automated CVS management system">
- <title>Bonsai</title>
-
- <para>Bonsai is a web-based tool for managing
- <xref linkend="cvs" />
-
- . Using Bonsai, administrators can control open/closed status of trees,
- query a fast relational database back-end for change, branch, and comment
- information, and view changes made since the last time the tree was
- closed. Bonsai
- also integrates with
- <xref linkend="tinderbox" />.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="cvs" xreflabel="CVS, the Concurrent Versioning System">
- <title>CVS</title>
-
- <para>CVS integration is best accomplished, at this point, using the
- Bugzilla Email Gateway.</para>
-
- <para>Follow the instructions in this Guide for enabling Bugzilla e-mail
- integration. Ensure that your check-in script sends an email to your
- Bugzilla e-mail gateway with the subject of
- <quote>[Bug XXXX]</quote>,
- and you can have CVS check-in comments append to your Bugzilla bug. If
- you want to have the bug be closed automatically, you'll have to modify
- the <filename>contrib/bugzilla_email_append.pl</filename> script.
- </para>
-
- <para>There is also a CVSZilla project, based upon somewhat dated
- Bugzilla code, to integrate CVS and Bugzilla through CVS' ability to
- email. Check it out at:
- <ulink url="http://homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz/~tonyg/">
- http://homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz/~tonyg/</ulink>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="scm"
- xreflabel="Perforce SCM (Fast Software Configuration Management System, a powerful commercial alternative to CVS">
-
- <title>Perforce SCM</title>
-
- <para>You can find the project page for Bugzilla and Teamtrack Perforce
- integration (p4dti) at:
- <ulink url="http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/">
- http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti</ulink>
-
- .
- <quote>p4dti</quote>
-
- is now an officially supported product from Perforce, and you can find
- the "Perforce Public Depot" p4dti page at
- <ulink url="http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/p4dti/index.html">
- http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/p4dti/index.html</ulink>
-
- .</para>
-
- <para>Integration of Perforce with Bugzilla, once patches are applied, is
- seamless. Perforce replication information will appear below the comments
- of each bug. Be certain you have a matching set of patches for the
- Bugzilla version you are installing. p4dti is designed to support
- multiple defect trackers, and maintains its own documentation for it.
- Please consult the pages linked above for further information.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="tinderbox"
- xreflabel="Tinderbox, the Mozilla automated build management system">
- <title>Tinderbox/Tinderbox2</title>
-
- <para>We need Tinderbox integration information.</para>
- </section>
-</section>
-
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-<chapter id="introduction">
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <section id="whatis">
- <title>What is Bugzilla?</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla is a bug- or issue-tracking system. Bug-tracking
- systems allow individual or groups of developers effectively to keep track
- of outstanding problems with their product.
- Bugzilla was originally
- written by Terry Weissman in a programming language called TCL, to
- replace a rudimentary bug-tracking database used internally by Netscape
- Communications. Terry later ported Bugzilla to Perl from TCL, and in Perl
- it remains to this day. Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors
- at the time charged enormous licensing fees, and Bugzilla quickly became
- a favorite of the open-source crowd (with its genesis in the open-source
- browser project, Mozilla). It is now the de-facto standard
- defect-tracking system against which all others are measured.
- </para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla boasts many advanced features. These include:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Powerful searching</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>User-configurable email notifications of bug changes</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Full change history</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Inter-bug dependency tracking and graphing</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Excellent attachment management</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Integrated, product-based, granular security schema</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fully security-audited, and runs under Perl's taint mode</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>A robust, stable RDBMS back-end</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Web, XML, email and console interfaces</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Completely customisable and/or localisable web user
- interface</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Extensive configurability</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Smooth upgrade pathway between versions</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="why">
- <title>Why Should We Use Bugzilla?</title>
-
- <para>For many years, defect-tracking software has remained principally
- the domain of large software development houses. Even then, most shops
- never bothered with bug-tracking software, and instead simply relied on
- shared lists and email to monitor the status of defects. This procedure
- is error-prone and tends to cause those bugs judged least significant by
- developers to be dropped or ignored.</para>
-
- <para>These days, many companies are finding that integrated
- defect-tracking systems reduce downtime, increase productivity, and raise
- customer satisfaction with their systems. Along with full disclosure, an
- open bug-tracker allows manufacturers to keep in touch with their clients
- and resellers, to communicate about problems effectively throughout the
- data management chain. Many corporations have also discovered that
- defect-tracking helps reduce costs by providing IT support
- accountability, telephone support knowledge bases, and a common,
- well-understood system for accounting for unusual system or software
- issues.</para>
-
- <para>But why should
- <emphasis>you</emphasis>
-
- use Bugzilla?</para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla is very adaptable to various situations. Known uses
- currently include IT support queues, Systems Administration deployment
- management, chip design and development problem tracking (both
- pre-and-post fabrication), and software and hardware bug tracking for
- luminaries such as Redhat, NASA, Linux-Mandrake, and VA Systems.
- Combined with systems such as
- <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org">CVS</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/bonsai.html">Bonsai</ulink>, or
- <ulink url="http://www.perforce.com">Perforce SCM</ulink>, Bugzilla
- provides a powerful, easy-to-use solution to configuration management and
- replication problems.</para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla can dramatically increase the productivity and
- accountability of individual employees by providing a documented workflow
- and positive feedback for good performance. How many times do you wake up
- in the morning, remembering that you were supposed to do
- <emphasis>something</emphasis>
- today, but you just can't quite remember? Put it in Bugzilla, and you
- have a record of it from which you can extrapolate milestones, predict
- product versions for integration, and follow the discussion trail
- that led to critical decisions.</para>
-
- <para>Ultimately, Bugzilla puts the power in your hands to improve your
- value to your employer or business while providing a usable framework for
- your natural attention to detail and knowledge store to flourish.</para>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
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-<!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
-<appendix id="patches" xreflabel="Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla">
- <title>Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla</title>
-
- <para>Are you looking for a way to put your Bugzilla into overdrive? Catch
- some of the niftiest tricks here in this section.</para>
-
- <section id="rewrite" xreflabel="Apache mod_rewrite magic">
- <title>Apache
- <filename>mod_rewrite</filename>
-
- magic</title>
-
- <para>Apache's
- <filename>mod_rewrite</filename>
-
- module lets you do some truly amazing things with URL rewriting. Here are
- a couple of examples of what you can do.</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Make it so if someone types
- <computeroutput>http://www.foo.com/12345</computeroutput>
-
- , Bugzilla spits back http://www.foo.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12345. Try
- setting up your VirtualHost section for Bugzilla with a rule like
- this:</para>
-
- <programlisting><![CDATA[
-<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78>
-RewriteEngine On
-RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)$ http://foo.bar.com/show_bug.cgi?id=$1 [L,R]
-</VirtualHost>
-]]></programlisting>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>There are many, many more things you can do with mod_rewrite.
- Please refer to the mod_rewrite documentation at
- <ulink url="http://www.apache.org">http://www.apache.org</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="cmdline">
- <title>Command-line Bugzilla Queries</title>
-
- <para>There are a suite of Unix utilities for querying Bugzilla from the
- command line. They live in the
- <filename class="directory">contrib/cmdline</filename>
- directory. However, they
- have not yet been updated to work with 2.16 (post-templatisation.).
- There are three files - <filename>query.conf</filename>,
- <filename>buglist</filename> and <filename>bugs</filename>.</para>
-
- <para><filename>query.conf</filename>
- contains the mapping from options to field
- names and comparison types. Quoted option names are "grepped" for, so it
- should be easy to edit this file. Comments (#) have no effect; you must
- make sure these lines do not contain any quoted "option".</para>
-
- <para><filename>buglist</filename>
- is a shell script which submits a Bugzilla query and writes
- the resulting HTML page to stdout. It supports both short options, (such
- as "-Afoo" or "-Rbar") and long options (such as "--assignedto=foo" or
- "--reporter=bar"). If the first character of an option is not "-", it is
- treated as if it were prefixed with "--default=".</para>
-
- <para>The column list is taken from the COLUMNLIST environment variable.
- This is equivalent to the "Change Columns" option when you list bugs in
- buglist.cgi. If you have already used Bugzilla, grep for COLUMNLIST
- in your cookies file to see your current COLUMNLIST setting.</para>
-
- <para><filename>bugs</filename> is a simple shell script which calls
- <filename>buglist</filename> and extracts the
- bug numbers from the output. Adding the prefix
- "http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=" turns the bug list into
- a working link if any bugs are found. Counting bugs is easy. Pipe the
- results through
- <command>sed -e 's/,/ /g' | wc | awk '{printf $2 "\n"}'</command>
- </para>
-
- <para>Akkana Peck says she has good results piping
- <filename>buglist</filename> output through
- <command>w3m -T text/html -dump</command>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-</appendix>
-
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- <title>Software Download Links</title>
-
- <para>All of these sites are current as of April, 2001. Hopefully they'll
- stay current for a while.</para>
-
- <para>Apache Web Server:
- <ulink url="http://www.apache.org/">http://www.apache.org</ulink>
-
- Optional web server for Bugzilla, but recommended because of broad user
- base and support.</para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla:
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/">
- http://www.bugzilla.org/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>MySQL:
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/">http://www.mysql.com/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>Perl:
- <ulink url="http://www.perl.org">http://www.perl.org/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>CPAN:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/">http://www.cpan.org/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>DBI Perl module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>Data::Dumper module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>MySQL related Perl modules:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mysql/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mysql/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>TimeDate Perl module collection:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>GD Perl module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GD/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GD/</ulink>
-
- Alternately, you should be able to find the latest version of GD at
- <ulink url="http://www.boutell.com/gd/">http://www.boutell.com/gd/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>Chart::Base module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Chart/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Chart/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>(But remember, Bundle::Bugzilla will install all the modules for you.)
- </para>
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-
-<chapter id="using">
- <title>Using Bugzilla</title>
-
- <section id="how">
- <title>How do I use Bugzilla?</title>
-
- <para>This section contains information for end-users of Bugzilla.
- There is a Bugzilla test installation, called
- <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/">Landfill</ulink>,
- which you are welcome to play with (if it's up.)
- However, it does not necessarily
- have all Bugzilla features enabled, and often runs cutting-edge versions
- of Bugzilla for testing, so some things may work slightly differently
- than mentioned here.</para>
-
- <section id="myaccount">
- <title>Create a Bugzilla Account</title>
-
- <para>If you want to use Bugzilla, first you need to create an account.
- Consult with the administrator responsible for your installation of
- Bugzilla for the URL you should use to access it. If you're
- test-driving Bugzilla, use this URL:
- <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/">
- http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Click the
- <quote>Open a new Bugzilla account</quote>
-
- link, enter your email address and, optionally, your name in the
- spaces provided, then click
- <quote>Create Account</quote>
-
- .</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Within moments, you should receive an email to the address
- you provided above, which contains your login name (generally the
- same as the email address), and a password you can use to access
- your account. This password is randomly generated, and can be
- changed to something more memorable.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Click the
- <quote>Log In</quote>
- link in the yellow area at the bottom of the page in your browser,
- enter your email address and password into the spaces provided, and
- click
- <quote>Login</quote>.
- </para>
-
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>You are now logged in. Bugzilla uses cookies for authentication
- so, unless your IP address changes, you should not have to log in
- again.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="bug_page">
- <title>Anatomy of a Bug</title>
-
- <para>The core of Bugzilla is the screen which displays a particular
- bug. It's a good place to explain some Bugzilla concepts.
- <ulink
- url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/show_bug.cgi?id=1">
- Bug 1 on Landfill</ulink>
-
- is a good example. Note that the labels for most fields are hyperlinks;
- clicking them will take you to context-sensitive help on that
- particular field. Fields marked * may not be present on every
- installation of Bugzilla.</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Product and Component</emphasis>:
- Bugs are divided up by Product and Component, with a Product
- having one or more Components in it. For example,
- bugzilla.mozilla.org's "Bugzilla" Product is composed of several
- Components:
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <emphasis>Administration:</emphasis>
- Administration of a Bugzilla installation.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Bugzilla-General:</emphasis>
- Anything that doesn't fit in the other components, or spans
- multiple components.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Creating/Changing Bugs:</emphasis>
- Creating, changing, and viewing bugs.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Documentation:</emphasis>
- The Bugzilla documentation, including The Bugzilla Guide.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Email:</emphasis>
- Anything to do with email sent by Bugzilla.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Installation:</emphasis>
- The installation process of Bugzilla.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Query/Buglist:</emphasis>
- Anything to do with searching for bugs and viewing the
- buglists.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Reporting/Charting:</emphasis>
- Getting reports from Bugzilla.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>User Accounts:</emphasis>
- Anything about managing a user account from the user's perspective.
- Saved queries, creating accounts, changing passwords, logging in,
- etc.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>User Interface:</emphasis>
- General issues having to do with the user interface cosmetics (not
- functionality) including cosmetic issues, HTML templates,
- etc.</member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Status and Resolution:</emphasis>
-
- These define exactly what state the bug is in - from not even
- being confirmed as a bug, through to being fixed and the fix
- confirmed by Quality Assurance. The different possible values for
- Status and Resolution on your installation should be documented in the
- context-sensitive help for those items.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Assigned To:</emphasis>
- The person responsible for fixing the bug.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*URL:</emphasis>
- A URL associated with the bug, if any.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Summary:</emphasis>
- A one-sentence summary of the problem.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Status Whiteboard:</emphasis>
- (a.k.a. Whiteboard) A free-form text area for adding short notes
- and tags to a bug.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Keywords:</emphasis>
- The administrator can define keywords which you can use to tag and
- categorise bugs - e.g. The Mozilla Project has keywords like crash
- and regression.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Platform and OS:</emphasis>
- These indicate the computing environment where the bug was
- found.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Version:</emphasis>
- The "Version" field is usually used for versions of a product which
- have been released, and is set to indicate which versions of a
- Component have the particular problem the bug report is
- about.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Priority:</emphasis>
- The bug assignee uses this field to prioritise his or her bugs.
- It's a good idea not to change this on other people's bugs.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Severity:</emphasis>
- This indicates how severe the problem is - from blocker
- ("application unusable") to trivial ("minor cosmetic issue"). You
- can also use this field to indicate whether a bug is an enhancement
- request.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Target:</emphasis>
- (a.k.a. Target Milestone) A future version by which the bug is to
- be fixed. e.g. The Bugzilla Project's milestones for future
- Bugzilla versions are 2.18, 2.20, 3.0, etc. Milestones are not
- restricted to numbers, thought - you can use any text strings, such
- as dates.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Reporter:</emphasis>
- The person who filed the bug.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>CC list:</emphasis>
- A list of people who get mail when the bug changes.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Attachments:</emphasis>
- You can attach files (e.g. testcases or patches) to bugs. If there
- are any attachments, they are listed in this section.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Dependencies:</emphasis>
- If this bug cannot be fixed unless other bugs are fixed (depends
- on), or this bug stops other bugs being fixed (blocks), their
- numbers are recorded here.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Votes:</emphasis>
- Whether this bug has any votes.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Additional Comments:</emphasis>
- You can add your two cents to the bug discussion here, if you have
- something worthwhile to say.</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="query">
- <title>Searching for Bugs</title>
-
- <para>The Bugzilla Search page is is the interface where you can find
- any bug report, comment, or patch currently in the Bugzilla system. You
- can play with it here:
- <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/query.cgi">
- landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/query.cgi</ulink>
-
- .</para>
-
- <para>The Search page has controls for selecting different possible
- values for all of the fields in a bug, as described above. Once you've
- defined a search, you can either run it, or save it as a Remembered
- Query, which can optionally appear in the footer of your pages.</para>
-
- <para>Highly advanced querying is done using Boolean Charts, which have
- their own
- <ulink
- url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/booleanchart.html">
- context-sensitive help</ulink>
-
- .</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="list">
- <title>Bug Lists</title>
-
- <para>If you run a search, a list of matching bugs will be returned.
- The default search is to return all open bugs on the system - don't try
- running this search on a Bugzilla installation with a lot of
- bugs!</para>
-
- <para>The format of the list is configurable. For example, it can be
- sorted by clicking the column headings. Other useful features can be
- accessed using the links at the bottom of the list:
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <emphasis>Long Format:</emphasis>
-
- this gives you a large page with a non-editable summary of the fields
- of each bug.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Change Columns:</emphasis>
-
- change the bug attributes which appear in the list.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Change several bugs at once:</emphasis>
-
- If your account is sufficiently empowered, you can make the same
- change to all the bugs in the list - for example, changing their
- owner.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Send mail to bug owners:</emphasis>
-
- Sends mail to the owners of all bugs on the list.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Edit this query:</emphasis>
-
- If you didn't get exactly the results you were looking for, you can
- return to the Query page through this link and make small revisions
- to the query you just made so you get more accurate results.</member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="bugreports">
- <title>Filing Bugs</title>
-
- <para>Years of bug writing experience has been distilled for your
- reading pleasure into the
- <ulink
- url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/bugwritinghelp.html">
- Bug Writing Guidelines</ulink>.
- While some of the advice is Mozilla-specific, the basic principles of
- reporting Reproducible, Specific bugs, isolating the Product you are
- using, the Version of the Product, the Component which failed, the
- Hardware Platform, and Operating System you were using at the time of
- the failure go a long way toward ensuring accurate, responsible fixes
- for the bug that bit you.</para>
-
- <para>The procedure for filing a test bug is as follows:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Go to
- <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/">
- Landfill</ulink>
- in your browser and click
- <ulink
- url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/enter_bug.cgi">
- Enter a new bug report</ulink>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Select a product - any one will do.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fill in the fields. Bugzilla should have made reasonable
- guesses, based upon your browser, for the "Platform" and "OS"
- drop-down boxes. If they are wrong, change them.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Select "Commit" and send in your bug report.</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="hintsandtips">
- <title>Hints and Tips</title>
-
- <para>This section distills some Bugzilla tips and best practices
- that have been developed.</para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Autolinkification</title>
- <para>Bugzilla comments are plain text - so posting HTML will result
- in literal HTML tags rather than being interpreted by a browser.
- However, Bugzilla will automatically make hyperlinks out of certain
- sorts of text in comments. For example, the text
- http://www.bugzilla.org will be turned into
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org">http://www.bugzilla.org</ulink>.
- Other strings which get linkified in the obvious manner are:
- <simplelist>
- <member>bug 12345</member>
- <member>bug 23456, comment 53</member>
- <member>attachment 4321</member>
- <member>mailto:george@example.com</member>
- <member>george@example.com</member>
- <member>ftp://ftp.mozilla.org</member>
- <member>Most other sorts of URL</member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
-
- <para>A corollary here is that if you type a bug number in a comment,
- you should put the word "bug" before it, so it gets autolinkified
- for the convenience of others.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="quicksearch">
- <title>Quicksearch</title>
-
- <para>Quicksearch is a single-text-box query tool which uses
- metacharacters to indicate what is to be searched. For example, typing
- "<filename>foo|bar</filename>"
- into Quicksearch would search for "foo" or "bar" in the
- summary and status whiteboard of a bug; adding
- "<filename>:BazProduct</filename>" would
- search only in that product.
- </para>
-
- <para>You'll find the Quicksearch box on Bugzilla's
- front page, along with a
- <ulink url="../../quicksearch.html">Help</ulink>
- link which details how to use it.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="commenting">
- <title>Comments</title>
-
- <para>If you are changing the fields on a bug, only comment if
- either you have something pertinent to say, or Bugzilla requires it.
- Otherwise, you may spam people unnecessarily with bug mail.
- To take an example: a user can set up their account to filter out messages
- where someone just adds themselves to the CC field of a bug
- (which happens a lot.) If you come along, add yourself to the CC field,
- and add a comment saying "Adding self to CC", then that person
- gets a pointless piece of mail they would otherwise have avoided.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Don't use sigs in comments. Signing your name ("Bill") is acceptable,
- particularly if you do it out of habit, but full mail/news-style
- four line ASCII art creations are not.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="attachments">
- <title>Attachments</title>
-
- <para>
- Use attachments, rather than comments, for large chunks of ASCII data,
- such as trace, debugging output files, or log files. That way, it doesn't
- bloat the bug for everyone who wants to read it, and cause people to
- receive fat, useless mails.
- </para>
-
- <para>Trim screenshots. There's no need to show the whole screen if
- you are pointing out a single-pixel problem.
- </para>
-
- <para>Don't attach simple test cases (e.g. one HTML file, one
- CSS file and an image) as a ZIP file. Instead, upload them in
- reverse order and edit the referring file so that they point to the
- attached files. This way, the test case works immediately
- out of the bug.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Filing Bugs</title>
-
- <para>Try to make sure that everything said in the summary is also
- said in the first comment. Summaries are often updated and this will
- ensure your original information is easily accessible.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You do not need to put "any" or similar strings in the URL field.
- If there is no specific URL associated with the bug, leave this
- field blank.
- </para>
-
- <para>If you feel a bug you filed was incorrectly marked as a
- DUPLICATE of another, please question it in your bug, not
- the bug it was duped to. Feel free to CC the person who duped it
- if they are not already CCed.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="userpreferences">
- <title>User Preferences</title>
-
- <para>Once you have logged in, you can customise various aspects of
- Bugzilla via the "Edit prefs" link in the page footer.
- The preferences are split into four tabs:</para>
-
- <section id="accountsettings" xreflabel="Account Settings">
- <title>Account Settings</title>
-
- <para>On this tab, you can change your basic account information,
- including your password, email address and real name. For security
- reasons, in order to change anything on this page you must type your
- <emphasis>current</emphasis>
- password into the
- <quote>Password</quote>
- field at the top of the page.
- If you attempt to change your email address, a confirmation
- email is sent to both the old and new addresses, with a link to use to
- confirm the change. This helps to prevent account hijacking.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="emailsettings">
- <title>Email Settings</title>
-
- <para>On this tab you can reduce or increase the amount of email sent
- you from Bugzilla, opting in our out depending on your relationship to
- the bug and the change that was made to it. (Note that you can also do
- client-side filtering using the X-Bugzilla-Reason header which Bugzilla
- adds to all bugmail.)</para>
-
- <para>By entering user email names, delineated by commas, into the
- "Users to watch" text entry box you can receive a copy of all the
- bugmail of other users (security settings permitting.) This powerful
- functionality enables seamless transitions as developers change
- projects or users go on holiday.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>The ability to watch other users may not be available in all
- Bugzilla installations. If you can't see it, ask your
- administrator.</para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section id="footersettings">
- <title>Page Footer</title>
-
- <para>On the Search page, you can store queries in Bugzilla, so if you
- regularly run a particular query it is just a drop-down menu away.
- Once you have a stored query, you can come
- here to request that it also be displayed in your page footer.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="permissionsettings">
- <title>Permissions</title>
-
- <para>This is a purely informative page which outlines your current
- permissions on this installation of Bugzilla - what product groups you
- are in, and whether you can edit bugs or perform various administration
- functions.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
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- <title>Bugzilla Variants and Competitors</title>
-
- <para>I created this section to answer questions about Bugzilla competitors
- and variants, then found a wonderful site which covers an awful lot of what
- I wanted to discuss. Rather than quote it in its entirety, I'll simply
- refer you here:
- <ulink url="http://linas.org/linux/pm.html">
- http://linas.org/linux/pm.html</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <section id="variant-redhat">
- <title>Red Hat Bugzilla</title>
-
- <para>Red Hat's old fork of Bugzilla which was based on version 2.8 is now
- obsolete. The newest version in use is based on version 2.17.1 and is in
- the process of being integrated into the main Bugzilla source tree. The
- back-end is modified to work with PostgreSQL instead of MySQL and they have
- custom templates to get their desired look and feel, but other than that it
- is Bugzilla 2.17.1. Dave Lawrence of Red Hat put forth a great deal of
- effort to make sure that the changes he made could be integrated back into
- the main tree.
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304">Bug
- 98304</ulink> exists to track this integration.
- </para>
-
- <para>URL:
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/">
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>This section last updated 24 Dec 2002</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="variant-fenris">
- <title>Loki Bugzilla (Fenris)</title>
-
- <para>Fenris was a fork from Bugzilla made by Loki Games; when
- Loki went into receivership, it died. While Loki's other code lives on,
- its custodians recommend Bugzilla for future bug-tracker deployments.
- </para>
-
- <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="variant-issuezilla">
- <title>Issuezilla</title>
-
- <para>Issuezilla was another fork from Bugzilla, made by collab.net and
- hosted at tigris.org. It is also dead; the primary focus of bug-tracking
- at tigris.org is their Java-based bug-tracker,
- <xref linkend="variant-scarab"/>.</para>
-
- <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="variant-scarab">
- <title>Scarab</title>
-
- <para>Scarab is a new open source bug-tracking system built using Java
- Servlet technology. It is currently at version 1.0 beta 13.</para>
-
- <para>URL:
- <ulink url="http://scarab.tigris.org/">http://scarab.tigris.org</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>This section last updated 18 Jan 2003</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="variant-perforce">
- <title>Perforce SCM</title>
-
- <para>Although Perforce isn't really a bug tracker, it can be used as
- such through the <quote>jobs</quote>
- functionality.</para>
-
- <para>URL:
- <ulink url="http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html">
- http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html
- </ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="variant-sourceforge">
- <title>SourceForge</title>
-
- <para>SourceForge is a way of coordinating geographically
- distributed free software and open source projects over the Internet.
- It has a built-in bug tracker, but it's not highly thought of.</para>
-
- <para>URL:
- <ulink url="http://www.sourceforge.net">
- http://www.sourceforge.net</ulink>
- </para>
-
- <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
- </section>
-</appendix>
-
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diff --git a/docs/xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml b/docs/xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml
index a9fcf097a..fd7353e8d 100644
--- a/docs/xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" [
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-<!ENTITY conventions SYSTEM "conventions.sgml">
-<!ENTITY doc-index SYSTEM "index.sgml">
-<!ENTITY faq SYSTEM "faq.sgml">
-<!ENTITY gfdl SYSTEM "gfdl.sgml">
-<!ENTITY glossary SYSTEM "glossary.sgml">
-<!ENTITY installation SYSTEM "installation.sgml">
-<!ENTITY administration SYSTEM "administration.sgml">
-<!ENTITY using SYSTEM "using.sgml">
-<!ENTITY integration SYSTEM "integration.sgml">
-<!ENTITY future SYSTEM "future.sgml">
-<!ENTITY index SYSTEM "index.sgml">
-<!ENTITY database SYSTEM "database.sgml">
-<!ENTITY patches SYSTEM "patches.sgml">
-<!ENTITY variants SYSTEM "variants.sgml">
-<!ENTITY introduction SYSTEM "introduction.sgml">
-<!ENTITY revhistory SYSTEM "revhistory.sgml">
+<!ENTITY about SYSTEM "about.xml">
+<!ENTITY conventions SYSTEM "conventions.xml">
+<!ENTITY doc-index SYSTEM "index.xml">
+<!ENTITY faq SYSTEM "faq.xml">
+<!ENTITY gfdl SYSTEM "gfdl.xml">
+<!ENTITY glossary SYSTEM "glossary.xml">
+<!ENTITY installation SYSTEM "installation.xml">
+<!ENTITY administration SYSTEM "administration.xml">
+<!ENTITY using SYSTEM "using.xml">
+<!ENTITY integration SYSTEM "integration.xml">
+<!ENTITY future SYSTEM "future.xml">
+<!ENTITY index SYSTEM "index.xml">
+<!ENTITY database SYSTEM "database.xml">
+<!ENTITY patches SYSTEM "patches.xml">
+<!ENTITY variants SYSTEM "variants.xml">
+<!ENTITY introduction SYSTEM "introduction.xml">
+<!ENTITY revhistory SYSTEM "revhistory.xml">
<!-- Things to change for a stable release:
* bz-ver to current stable
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
<!-- Coding standards for this document
* Other than the GFDL, please use the "section" tag instead of "sect1", "sect2", etc.
-* Use Entities to include files for new chapters in Bugzilla-Guide.sgml.
+* Use Entities to include files for new chapters in Bugzilla-Guide.xml.
* Try to use Entities for frequently-used passages of text as well.
* Ensure all documents compile cleanly to HTML after modification.
The warning, "DTDDECL catalog types not supported" is normal.
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ The warning, "DTDDECL catalog types not supported" is normal.
* Follow coding standards at http://www.tldp.org, and
check out the KDE guidelines (they are nice, too)
http://i18n.kde.org/doc/markup.html
-* All tags should be lowercase (needsfix)
+* All tags should be lowercase.
* Please use sensible spacing. The comments at the very end of each
file define reasonable defaults for PSGML mode in EMACS.
Double-indent tags, use double spacing whenever possible, and
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ try to avoid clutter and feel free to waste space in the code to make it more re
<para>
This documentation is maintained in DocBook 4.1.2 XML format.
- Changes are best submitted as plain text or SGML diffs, attached
+ Changes are best submitted as plain text or XML diffs, attached
to a bug filed in the &bzg-bugs; compontent.
</para>
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@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
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sgml-shorttag:t
sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/about.xml b/docs/xml/about.xml
index ccfcdd23e..f3a9a1c5f 100644
--- a/docs/xml/about.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/about.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" [
-<!ENTITY conventions SYSTEM "conventions.sgml"> ] > -->
+<!ENTITY conventions SYSTEM "conventions.xml"> ] > -->
<chapter id="about">
<title>About This Guide</title>
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
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sgml-shorttag:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/administration.xml b/docs/xml/administration.xml
index f04e2b5ce..afe50c789 100644
--- a/docs/xml/administration.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/administration.xml
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
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sgml-shorttag:t
sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/conventions.xml b/docs/xml/conventions.xml
index 5e761d9f4..7e9eb5b04 100644
--- a/docs/xml/conventions.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/conventions.xml
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
-sgml-parent-document:("Bugzilla-Guide.sgml" "book" "chapter")
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sgml-shorttag:t
sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/database.xml b/docs/xml/database.xml
index d32bb57cc..25a3855ec 100644
--- a/docs/xml/database.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/database.xml
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
-sgml-parent-document:("Bugzilla-Guide.sgml" "book" "chapter")
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sgml-shorttag:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/faq.xml b/docs/xml/faq.xml
index ef5f23123..bff9376ab 100644
--- a/docs/xml/faq.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/faq.xml
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
-sgml-parent-document:("Bugzilla-Guide.sgml" "book" "chapter")
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sgml-shorttag:t
sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/gfdl.xml b/docs/xml/gfdl.xml
index fdfdb4bc5..ae19501d2 100644
--- a/docs/xml/gfdl.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/gfdl.xml
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
-sgml-parent-document:("Bugzilla-Guide.sgml" "book" "chapter")
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sgml-shorttag:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/glossary.xml b/docs/xml/glossary.xml
index d979505ca..807b7e647 100644
--- a/docs/xml/glossary.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/glossary.xml
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
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sgml-shorttag:t
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End:
diff --git a/docs/xml/index.xml b/docs/xml/index.xml
index 3b3516e14..7fc1a4c14 100644
--- a/docs/xml/index.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/index.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
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sgml-shorttag:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/installation.xml b/docs/xml/installation.xml
index b9fee2cc8..89dfc224c 100644
--- a/docs/xml/installation.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/installation.xml
@@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ my $webservergid = '8'
<command>look GD</command>.
This should go through the motions of downloading the latest version of
the GD module, then it will open a shell and drop you into the build
- directory. Apply <ulink url="../sgml/gd-makefile.patch">this patch</ulink>
+ directory. Apply <ulink url="../xml/gd-makefile.patch">this patch</ulink>
to the Makefile.PL file (save the
patch into a file and use the command
<command>patch &lt; patchfile</command>.)
@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/File/Temp.pm line 233.
<para>Numerous people have reported that upgrading to version 5.6.1
or higher solved the problem for them. A less involved fix is to apply
the patch in <xref linkend="trouble-filetemp-patch"/>. The patch is also
- available as a <ulink url="../sgml/filetemp.patch">patch file</ulink>.
+ available as a <ulink url="../xml/filetemp.patch">patch file</ulink>.
</para>
<figure id="trouble-filetemp-patch">
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sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
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sgml-shorttag:t
sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/integration.xml b/docs/xml/integration.xml
index 1b0489fd9..514064d26 100644
--- a/docs/xml/integration.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/integration.xml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/introduction.xml b/docs/xml/introduction.xml
index 33907552b..8b09fe2b5 100644
--- a/docs/xml/introduction.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/introduction.xml
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
sgml-namecase-general:t
sgml-omittag:t
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sgml-shorttag:t
sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/patches.xml b/docs/xml/patches.xml
index 43f816758..84d83d333 100644
--- a/docs/xml/patches.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/patches.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">
+<!-- <!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"> -->
<appendix id="patches" xreflabel="Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla">
<title>Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla</title>
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sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
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sgml-tag-region-if-active:t
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diff --git a/docs/xml/requiredsoftware.xml b/docs/xml/requiredsoftware.xml
index f32f0dc2f..95988ec83 100644
--- a/docs/xml/requiredsoftware.xml
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@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
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diff --git a/docs/xml/using.xml b/docs/xml/using.xml
index a3986c27d..b5dab9d0a 100644
--- a/docs/xml/using.xml
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@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
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diff --git a/docs/xml/variants.xml b/docs/xml/variants.xml
index 3a7fd6743..690b50987 100644
--- a/docs/xml/variants.xml
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