barnboy%trilobyte.net 51a7de4d46 Updated Bugzilla Guide and README to fix bug 76156, bug 76841, and bug 26242.
The README is now gutted, pointers to Guide.  Also some new sections added,
old ones fixed, and notes appended to deprecated sections I've not yet had
the heart to remove.


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<appendix id="patches">
<title>Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla</title>
<section id="setperl">
<title>The setperl.csh Utility</title>
<para>
You can use the "setperl.csh" utility to quickly and easily
change the path to perl on all your Bugzilla files.
This is a C-shell script; if you do not have "csh" or "tcsh" in the search
path on your system, it will not work!
</para>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>
Download the "setperl.csh" utility to your Bugzilla
directory and make it executable.
</para>
<substeps>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>cd /your/path/to/bugzilla</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>wget -O setperl.csh 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=10795'</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>chmod u+x setperl.csh</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
</substeps>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Prepare (and fix) Bugzilla file permissions.
</para>
<substeps>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>chmod u+w *</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>chmod u+x duplicates.cgi</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>chmod a-x bug_status.html</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
</substeps>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Run the script:
</para>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>./setperl.csh /your/path/to/perl</command>
</computeroutput>
<example>
<title>Using Setperl to set your perl path</title>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>./setperl.csh /usr/bin/perl</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</example>
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
<section id="cmdline">
<title>Command-line Bugzilla Queries</title>
<para>
Users can query Bugzilla from the command line using
this suite of utilities.
</para>
<para>
The query.conf file 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>
buglist 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 columlist 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, use
<command>grep COLUMLIST ~/.netscape/cookies</command> to see
your current COLUMNLIST setting.
</para>
<para>
bugs is a simple shell script which calls buglist 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 $2 "\n"}'</command>
</para>
<para>
Akkana says she has good results piping buglist output through
<command>w3m -T text/html -dump</command>
</para>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>
Download three files:
</para>
<substeps>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash$</prompt>
<command>wget -O query.conf 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26157'</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash$</prompt>
<command>wget -O buglist 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26944'</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash#</prompt>
<command>wget -O bugs 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26215'</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
</substeps>
</step>
<step>
<para>
Make your utilities executable:
<computeroutput>
<prompt>bash$</prompt>
<command>chmod u+x buglist bugs</command>
</computeroutput>
</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
<section id="quicksearch">
<title>The Quicksearch Utility</title>
<para>
Quicksearch is a new, experimental feature of the 2.12 release.
It consist of two Javascript files, "quicksearch.js" and "localconfig.js",
and two documentation files, "quicksearch.html" and "quicksearchhack.html"
</para>
<para>
The index.html page has been updated to include the QuickSearch text box.
</para>
<para>
To take full advantage of the query power, the Bugzilla maintainer must
edit "localconfig.js" according to the value sets used in the local installation.
</para>
<para>
Currently, keywords must be hard-coded in localconfig.js. If they are not,
keywords are not automatically recognized. This means, if localconfig.js
is left unconfigured, that searching for a bug with the "foo" keyword
will only find bugs with "foo" in the summary, status whiteboard, product or
component name, but not those with the keyword "foo".
</para>
<para>
Workarounds for Bugzilla users:
<simplelist>
<member>search for '!foo' (this will find only bugs with the keyword "foo"</member>
<member>search 'foo,!foo' (equivalent to 'foo OR keyword:foo')</member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
When this tool is ported from client-side JavaScript to server-side Perl,
the requirement for hard-coding keywords can be fixed.
<ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70907">This bug</ulink>
has details.
</para>
</section>
</appendix>
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