135639 - Update section about command line queries

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

If you read http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/html/cmdline.html , you will notice
that it says that you need to download the files manually (e.g. using wget).
This is no longer necessary since the files are now in cvs, see
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/webtools/bugzilla/contrib/cmdline

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Barnboy changed his email address and opened a new account instead of having the
address changed on his existing one.  Reassigning all docs bugs to his new account.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

afranke: is fixing these merely a case of saying that they now ship with
Bugzilla, or are there other documentation changes required related to
command-line queries?

Gerv

Comment 3

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

1) The instructions to download the three files are obsolete. Instead, they can
be found in the contrib/cmdline subdirectory of bugzilla. The "chmod" step may
be obsolete, too: at least when I "update -d cmdline", I get the "buglist" and
"bugs" files already with executable bits set. But it can't hurt.

2) You can add a pointer to bug 6419 if you like. At the end of the bug, there
is some recent discussion on how to make it work on solaris.

3) Note that the "bugs" script only works with the current version of b.m.o. It
does not work with the templatized version, since the buglist.cgi output has
changed dramatically. Maybe someone will be able to fix it, maybe not. In any
case, this will be better solved with yet another buglist template. :-)
In case you are interested in making one (maybe something like "idlist" would be
a suitable format name), here is one example output:

afranke@gentzen [/tmp/cmdline] ./bugs --status=NEW,ASS,REOP --assignedto=gerv
--product=Bugzilla --milestone=2.16
140435,140437,140993,141036
afranke@gentzen [/tmp/cmdline]

4) Currently the bugs script creates a tmp file in the same directory where the
scripts are. So if you want to use the bugs script, but you are not the owner of
the cmdline directory, you have to copy the directory and use the bugs script in
your copy. But this may be of very little use anyway, because of issue 3). The
buglist script does not have this problem because it does not need a tmp file.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Done in my local copy; this will go into 2.16 branch CVS tonight.

Gerv