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diff --git a/docs/sgml/patches.sgml b/docs/sgml/patches.sgml deleted file mode 100644 index 43f816758..000000000 --- a/docs/sgml/patches.sgml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,113 +0,0 @@ -<!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> - -<!-- 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: ---> - |