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+installtypes file format:
+
+typename:description filetype|location (one blank line to end one
+installtype and begin the next)
+
+You can specify a unix path in location, or 'userdir' to indicate that
+the user should be prompted and asked which directory they want to
+install into. Bugzilla will attempt to provide them with a reasonible
+default.
+
+Most packagers will not want to change very many installlayout settings.
+It is important to ensure that 'res' has the appearence of being in the
+same directory as cgi and req to the http server, though this can be
+accomplished through careful configuration of your httpd.conf config
+files. req and cgi should almost always be in the same directory
+however. tst can be set to null for systems where the tests are unwanted
+or unnessicary (they will be run upon installation and upgrading as part
+of the 'make test' process. tem can be set to any path wanted, the
+template search/include path in Bugzilla will be set automatically. mod
+may also be set anywhere, use lib lines will be added to Bugzilla
+scripts.
+
+The doc setting is "magical" in that a third paramater is used to set
+which types of documentation is installed. This may be set to 'all' and
+all types of documents will be copied, or to any one of the supported
+documentation types (with a corresponding directory in bugzilla/docs/)
+
+Filetypes: res: resources (images, html, js, etc) cgi: cgi files mod:
+modules req: something that must be with the other cgi scripts for
+bugzilla to work null: not needed in the dist, discard tst: tests
+
+You MUST add any new files to the filemappings file or it will not be
+copied into the installed dist. The tests will check for this.
+
+Do _not_ include any documentation or templates in the filemappings
+list, the makefile has special rules written in to accomidate these.
+
+