According to Lachlan Andrew: > I'm sorry, I misread your bug report. I take it that common_dir > *wasn't* /usr/share/htdig in the RedHat RPM, but that it should have > been. If the packagers configured it with --prefix=/usr (which the > package information says they did), then the default location for > common_dir would be /usr/share/htdig. If that isn't what it is, > they must also have overridden either --datadir=... or > --with-common-dir=... > > The point remains that the way the packagers choose to configure the > package is beyond our control. We just provide the flexibility for > them to put things wherever they want. > > Out of interest, do you know where they *did* point common_dir to? > I've tried to find out, haven't been able to :(
They point it to /var/www/html/htdig. Actually, they do lots of really dumb things in their RPM package. First of all they set common_dir and image_dir to the same thing, then they move /var/www/html/htdig to /usr/share/htdig. In previous RPMs, they then made a symlink from /var/www/html/htdig (in the htdig-web package) over to /usr/share/htdig, so that htsearch et al. only found the common files if you had installed both htdig and htdig-web packages, and htsearch's images would only load if you configure httpd to follow symlinks. Now, to resolve the latter problem, they use an Apache Alias instead of a symlink, so the images load, but nothing will find the common files unless you fix common_dir in your htdig.conf. Maybe in another year or two they'll finally get it right. I can send you their .spec file if you're interested. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
