Entries from May 2010
Red Hat Bugzilla – What is it?
Bugzilla is a bug tracking system developed at mozilla.org. It was originally used to track the bugs in the Mozilla web browser. Red Hat has customized it to track bugs in our Linux products. Read More...
Step-by-step Install Bugzilla
Installation of bugzilla is pretty straightforward, particularly if your machine already has MySQL and the MySQL-related perl packages installed. The software packages necessary for the proper running of bugzilla are: 1. MySQL database server and the mysql client (3.22.5 or greater) 2. Perl (5.004 or greater, 5.6.1 is recommended if you wish to use Bundle::Bugzilla) Read More...
Bugzilla Database Basics
To connect to your database: bash#mysql-u root To see all the “spreadsheets” (tables): mysql>show tables from bugs; To see columns from table: mysql> show columns from table; To see all the data in a table: mysql> select * from table; others: mysqlgt; select * from table where (column = “some info”); mysqlgt; select * from Read More...
How do I change a keyword in Bugzilla, once some bugs are using it?
In the Bugzilla administrator UI, edit the keyword and it will let you replace the old keyword name with a new one. This will cause a problem with the keyword cache. Run sanitycheck.cgi to fix it. Read More...