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diff --git a/docs/newinstall_notes b/docs/newinstall_notes new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fffa68468 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/newinstall_notes @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +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. + + |