950878 - checksetup.pl should let you configure/edit parameters in localconfig

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, enhancement)

Description

[Frédéric Buclin]

Editing localconfig manually is prone to errors. If localconfig doesn't exist, then checksetup.pl should propose you to configure parameters on the fly, and once it has all the data, create localconfig itself and continue with the installation of Bugzilla. This way, checksetup.pl could run validators similar to those being in Bugzilla::Config::Common and make sure that parameters are valid (such as $db_driver or $cvsbin, etc...).

If localconfig already exists, then checksetup.pl --reconfigure or something like that would rewrite localconfig, and it would offer the already stored parameters as default, so that you can simply type "Enter" if you are fine with the default value.

Comment 1

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

I'd like to see this too. Perhaps a --var foo=bar.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Removing good-first-bug keyword because team does not have bandwidth to mentor at the moment.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Removing outreachy because team does not have bandwidth to mentor this cycle.