customizing file layout, urlbase, and embedded paths

[David Miller]

On 7/2/2003 10:33 AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:

> I'm working on a trial Debian package for 2.17.4, and Debian has some
> requirements for the placement of files (a la the FHS), and the Debian
> package wants to place bugzilla as http://host/bugzilla.

...

> So I'm wondering
>
>   1) if there's an easier way to handle these changes given the
>      current bugzilla infrastructure.  I see urlbase, but didn't know
>      how conscientiously that was being used.
>
>   2) if any thought has been given to how you might want to support
>      varying install locations (if you want to support them at all).
>
> I ask the latter question because if you do have particular changes in
> mind, we may well be able to reorient our Debian patches along those
> lines, and possibly come up with something suitable for incorporation
> upstream.

Brad Baetz is already working on a bunch of this kind of stuff because we
have to do it anyway for mod_perl support. :)  mod_perl won't let you use
relative pathnames, so we need to know where we're located at all times and
refer to things appropriately.  The beginnings of it are here:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208604
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