Greetings Jon, Thanks for your offer to advise us on how to simplify configuring ht://Dig, and you are right that it doesn't belong in the bug report. You can reply to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regarding the value of common_dir, thank you for contacting the RedHat packagers. The point I was trying to make was not that the RPM should have located old .conf files, but that when the packagers compiled their package, they can set it to whatever they consider fits best with the other packages for their distribution. (That is why there are RedHat RPMs which are distinct from, say, Mandrake RPMs.) The actual ht://Dig default configuration points common_dir to /opt/www/share/htdig, so the decision to make it /usr/share/htdig must have been made by the packagers. Cheers, Lachlan > Date: 2003-05-17 21:16 > Sender: jonbaron > Logged In: YES > user_id=770474 > > Concerning the second part of your question, what to do to make > construction of htdig.conf easier, I'd rather discuss that > by email. > It doesn't belong in this bug report. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003-05-17 21:13 Sender: jonbaron Logged In: YES user_id=770474 It wouldn't be a problem with the RPM if htdig kept common_dir in /usr/share/htdig. The fact that it changed is what caused the problem, no? I guess it is too late now. I suppose it is my job to alert RedHat to this problem. I will try to figure out how to do that. Should an RPM be expected to find all the various htdig.conf files and fix them? I don't think so. (I have several, with different names.) Date: 2003-05-17 16:40 Sender: lha Logged In: YES user_id=663373 Thanks for your feedback. Yes, it does sound like a bug in the RPM. The default value of common_dir is set at compile time, and it would be reasonable to expect the RPM maintainer to put the default header and footer files in the default common directory. Can you suggest what the ht://Dig team should do? Regarding the time taken to create your htdig.conf file, I realise that this is a problem. Can you suggest what would have speeded up the process? Thanks again, Lachlan --- Original Message --- I upgraded to RedHat Linux 9, which has htdig-3.2.0-16.20021103. I do not know what version of htdig I had before, but I was using RH 7.3 (but I don't think the version I was using came with that). The header and footer of the search results did not display. I was able to fix the problem by adding the line common_dir: /usr/share/htdig to /etc/htdig.conf (Don't ask how I arrived at this solution. I have no idea.) This may be a problem with the RPM. But, on the other hand, it did a reasonable thing, which was to leave my htdig.conf file alone (which took me hours and hours to make). That file did not contain any definition of common_dir. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
