Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/pkgsrc/databases/gnats/DESCR,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -p -r1.2 -r1.3 --- pkgsrc/databases/gnats/DESCR 2002/10/20 01:50:33 1.2 +++ pkgsrc/databases/gnats/DESCR 2003/04/27 15:53:54 1.3 @@ -1,35 +1,7 @@ - GNATS - GNU Problem Report Management System +GNATS is the GNU Problem Report Management System. -This directory contains GNATS, a problem tracking system written to -help report on, and track, problem reports or bugs. GNATS is currently -in use at Cygnus to help track all incoming bug reports. There are -many concepts or approaches to GNATS which are only useful to -organizations which track bugs related by customers as well as by bug -type. - -You will want to add a user entry to your /etc/passwd file for the user-id -that owns gnats-related databases on your server. Something of the form: - - gnats:*:61:61:GNATS database owner:/usr/pkg/share/gnats/gnats-db:/bin/sh - -should do just fine (put it in your ftpusers file!). Then add the following -line to /etc/inetd.conf and restart inetd: - - support stream tcp nowait gnats /usr/pkg/libexec/gnats/gnatsd gnatsd - -Add something like this into the a crontab for 'gnats' to process -incoming bug reports: - - */5 * * * * /usr/pkg/libexec/gnats/queue-pr -r - -or in /etc/crontab as: - - */5 * * * * gnats /usr/pkg/libexec/gnats/queue-pr -r - -To accept PRs by mail you'll want some new aliases too: - - gnats-admin: postmaster - bugs: "| /usr/pkg/libexec/gnats/queue-pr -q" - query-pr: "| /usr/pkg/libexec/gnats/mail-query" - -Don't forget to run /usr/pkg/libexec/gnats/mkcat as gnats. +GNATS is a problem tracking system written to help report on, and track, +problem reports or bugs. GNATS is currently in use at Cygnus to help track +all incoming bug reports. There are many concepts or approaches to GNATS +which are only useful to organizations which track bugs related by +customers as well as by bug type.