236651 - Remove obsolete instructions from the "2.1.5 Perl Modules" section

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

2.1.5.1: DBD::mysql is a separate package from DBD::mSQL now, and has been for
some time.  These questions are no longer asked.  If you've locked down your
MySQL (which is a good idea) then you will need to use CPAN's "look" command to
enter the DBD::mysql build directory, and run "perl Makefile.PL" with the
options to specify a username and password to use.  Otherwise the tests will fail.

2.1.5.2: Template: notes from frequent questions on IRC: on a lot of systems,
the tests related to the latex parser will fail.  Bugzilla doesn't use this, so
we should recommend answering No to this question unless they have some other
need for it.  Also, the tests related to some of the optional components
sometimes fail on some systems...  Bugzilla doesn't use anything from any of the
optional components, so we should recommend that if Bugzilla is the only thing
they plan to use Template Toolkit for that they can answer No to installing the
optional components.

2.1.5.3: On most systems, because of the GD module versions being tied to
specific libgd versions, "install GD" in CPAN won't work.  We should give an
example of the fully-qualified CPAN archive name to install this file.  i.e.
install L/LD/LDS/GD-1.41.tar.gz
And recommend if they have a 2.x libgd, and the current version of the GD module
won't install, to go back one version and keep going back until they get one
that does.  The top of the build log for GD will give the minimum libgd version.
 Make sure you watch for it, and go to older versions if the current one is too
new for your libgd.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Preliminarily moving all docs bugs to 2.18, we should make a valiant attempt to
have the docs as up-to-date as possible when 2.18 releases.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

Bugzilla 2.20 is no longer supported. Retargetting to 2.22.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Bugzilla 2.22 is no longer supported.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

Attachment: patch, v1

This section is obsolete now that we have install-module.pl. It knows what to do with each CPAN tarball, and the user no longer has to interact with the installation process.

Comment 5

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Comment on attachment 456761 [details] [diff] [review]
patch, v1

r=reed

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

Committing to: bzr+ssh://[e-mail]/bugzilla/trunk/
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