Re: [htdig] Fedora Core 2 rpms include two different htsearch binaries

[Jim <li...@yg...>]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Max Pyziur wrote:

> In installing both htdig and htdig-web RPMs I noticed that there are two 
> different htsearch binaries.
>
> htdig provides /usr/bin/htsearch
> pyz@brama ~> ls -l /usr/bin/htsearch
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 130492 Mar 29 10:27 /usr/bin/htsearch
>
> htdig-web provides /var/www/cgi-bin/htsearch
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 109068 Mar 29 10:27 /var/www/cgi-bin/htsearch
>
> I tried each one for working with the search web pages of htdig and didn't 
> see any difference in the results, yet they are obviously different based on 
> the size of the binaries.
>
> Do they have different purposes or are they interchangeable?

You will probably need to talk to someone associated with the maintenance 
of the Fedora packages to find out what is going on here. This is a setup 
specific to the distribution in question. ht://Dig just provides the 
source. How it is built and bundled is up to the group distributing the 
binaries.

Jim