[htdig-dev] Re: Feedback on configuring ht://Dig?

[Lachlan A. <lh...@us...>]

Greetings again, Jon,

I'm sorry, I misread your bug report.  I take it that  common_dir =20
*wasn't* /usr/share/htdig in the RedHat RPM, but that it should have=20
been.  If the packagers configured it with  --prefix=3D/usr  (which the=20
package information says they did), then the default location for =20
common_dir  would be  /usr/share/htdig.  If that isn't what it is,=20
they must also have overridden either  --datadir=3D...  or =20
--with-common-dir=3D...

The point remains that the way the packagers choose to configure the=20
package is beyond our control.  We just provide the flexibility for=20
them to put things wherever they want.

Out of interest, do you know where they *did* point  common_dir  to? =20
I've tried to find out, haven't been able to :(

Cheers,
Lachlan

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 23:30, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

> Regarding the value of  common_dir,...
> The actual  ht://Dig  default configuration points=20
> common_dir to /opt/www/share/htdig,  so the decision to make it
> /usr/share/htdig must have been made by the packagers.
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> The header and footer of the search results did not display. I was
> able to fix the problem by adding the line
>   common_dir: /usr/share/htdig
> to /etc/htdig.conf (Don't ask how I arrived at this solution. I
> have no idea.)