[WBEL-users] RedHat Bugzilla RPM

[Kirby C. Bohling]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:19:21AM -0500, Joe Brouhard wrote:
> Anyone know if a RedHat Bugzilla RPM is available?  I've got a server
> that is going to house a Bugzilla for a webdevelopment team (of which
> I'm a part of), so i need to be able to run bugzilla and would prefer
> to keep the system as rpm-based as possible.

Joe,

	I looked around a while back, and I couldn't find any RPM's for
it.  I think most of the problem is that it has a number of perl
dependencies, and well Perl isn't terribly well RPM'ed for CPAN
things (there are tools to automate it, but the majority of CPAN
packages aren't RPM'ized).

	For whatever it's worth, the pre-install script it comes with is
pretty good.  It does a find job.  I think part of the reason that
it's not terribly RPM'ized, is that it's seen as something you'll
customize quite a bit.  Looking at the change log, it appears to
have a number of upgrades that involve hand tweaking things because
of schema changes and whatnot.

	Bugzilla used to have a hard earned reputation for being a pain
to install.  I know the first time I looked at it, the
documentation, said roughly "if you can't install this without help,
you shouldn't be running it, this software is a work in progress".
It didn't bother to list dependencies, or anything.  It's much, much
nicer now then it used to be.

Thanks,
	Kirby



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