Bug 196433 - Bugzilla now uses /usr/bin/perl as the shebang line

r=justdave
a=justdave

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/docs/xml/faq.xml b/docs/xml/faq.xml
index df80794cd..d0f78b75a 100644
--- a/docs/xml/faq.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/faq.xml
@@ -204,25 +204,43 @@
       <qandaentry>
 	<question id="faq-general-bonsaitools">
 	  <para>
-	    Why do the scripts say "/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl" instead of
-	    "/usr/bin/perl" or something else?
+	    What is <filename>/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl</filename>?
 	  </para>
 	</question>
 	<answer>
 	  <para>
-	     Mozilla.org uses /usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl, because originally
-       Terry wanted a place to put a version of Perl and other tools 
-       that was strictly under his control. 
-    </para>
-		<para>
-		  We always recommend that, if possible, you keep the path
-		  as /usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl, and simply add symlink.  
-      This will make upgrading
-		  your Bugzilla much easier in the future.
-		</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">
diff --git a/docs/xml/installation.xml b/docs/xml/installation.xml
index d1fa2401b..9f94feb7a 100644
--- a/docs/xml/installation.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/installation.xml
@@ -522,41 +522,6 @@
       until you run the post-install 
       <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>
       script, which locks down your installation.</para>
-
-      <para>Lastly, you'll need to set up a symbolic link to 
-      <filename>/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl</filename>
-      for the correct location of your Perl executable (probably 
-      <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>). 
-      Otherwise you must hack all the .cgi files to change where they look
-      for Perl. This can be done using the following Perl one-liner, but 
-      I suggest using the symlink approach to avoid upgrade hassles.
-      </para>
-
-      <note>
-        <para><quote>Bonsaitools</quote> is the name Terry Weissman, the
-	original author of Bugzilla, created
-	for his suite of webtools at the time he created Bugzilla and several
-	other tools in use at mozilla.org.  He created a directory, 
-	<filename>/usr/bonsaitools</filename> to house his specific versions
-	of perl and other utilities.  This usage is still current at
-	<ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/">bugzilla.mozilla.org</ulink>,
-	but in general most other places do not use it.  You can either edit
-	the paths at the start of each perl file to the correct location of
-	perl on your system, or simply bow to history and create a
-	<filename>/usr/bonsaitools</filename> and <filename>/usr/bonsaitools/bin
-	</filename> directory, placing a symlink to perl on your system
-	inside <filename>/usr/bonsaitools/bin</filename>
-	</para>
-      </note>
-      
-      <para> 
-        <programlisting>
-perl -pi -e 's@#\!/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl@#\!/usr/bin/perl@' *cgi *pl Bug.pm syncshadowdb
-        </programlisting>
-
-        Change <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename> to match the location
-        of Perl on your machine.
-      </para>
     </section>
 
     <section>
@@ -1185,7 +1150,7 @@ system("C:\\perl\\bin\\perl", "$webdotbase","-Tpng","-o","$pngfilename","$filena
           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/bonsaitools/bin/perl</filename>.
+          perl instead of <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>.
           </para>
         </note>