Re: Bug#5026: man2html doesn't install cgi-bin correctly
'Christoph Lameter wrote:'
>
>On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:
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>cjf >Package: man2html
>cjf >Version: 1.5-6
>cjf >
>cjf >After installing this package the suggested URL
>cjf >http://www.myhost.net/cgi-bin/man2html didn't work because
>cjf >/usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin is not where my cgi-bin is located. At minimum
>cjf >the postinst should suggest how to reconfigure your web server to use
>cjf >this new location. Which I should get back to puzzling out now ...
>cjf >
>cjf >Creating symbolic links from the real cgi-bin to
>cjf >/usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin worked. So that may be something to do?
>
>Wait until we have agreed on a standard.
I'm not changing all my web servers to conform to the unproposed
standard overnight. So all package maintainers working on httpd
related things need very creative postinst's :( All due to the former
apache maintainer's decision not to follow the "standard" set by
cern-httpd which contributed in large part to the current mess.
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