232804 - checksetup.pl needs a --check-modules switch

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, defect)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

When rewriting the Bugzilla installation instructions, I noticed that it would
be very handy to be able to instruct people to run checksetup.pl
--check-modules, which only did the module check. This would avoid the following
scenario:

- User runs checksetup.pl -> modules required
- User installs modules
- User runs checksetup.pl -> all modules present, localconfig created
- User runs checksetup.pl once more, for whatever reason -> localconfig read
  without being modified, no database access, errors, general nastiness.

In the new world, the "installation" section of the manual would tell them to
run with --check-modules, and the "configuration" section would tell them to run
it without.

Gerv

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Attachment: Patch v.1

This allows checksetup.pl to exit after checking the modules if
"--check-modules" is specified on the command line. It also documents the
undocumented "silent" mode of checksetup.pl.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Hmm, this would be cool.  Tinderbox could run checksetup in this mode to ensure
that the environment is set up. :)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Fixed.

Checking in checksetup.pl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/checksetup.pl,v  <--  checksetup.pl
new revision: 1.260; previous revision: 1.259
done

Gerv