Bug 18538

Summary:	Squirrelmail uses hardcoded installation path
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexander Gretencord <arutha>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Nick Hadaway <grandmasterlinux>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Gretencord 2003-03-31 11:47:28 UTC

The Squirrelmail ebuild uses a hardcoded path (/home/httpd/htdocs/) to install to. The newer 
 apache ebuilds can set the document root via the homedir set in /etc/passwd which I used too 
 when installing apache a few mins ago. Needless to say, I expected the same behavior from 
 the squirrelmail ebuild. Now you have to make an alias to the obviously just outdated path (as 
 apache used that path some time ago IIRC. Just do this: 
 
HTTPD_ROOT=`grep ^apache: /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f6` 
 
Perhaps you should even put a htdocs to thet HTTPD_ROOT, which would be more 
 straightforward as you can then just use squirrelmail right away although I personally prefer to 
 have squirrel not in htdocs but have it aliased to something else.

Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-03 15:52:50 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15961 ***