# The Bugzilla Guide - 2.17.5 Development Release

### Matthew P. Barnson

### Jacob Steenhagen

### The Bugzilla Team

2003-11-01

This is the documentation for Bugzilla, the mozilla.org bug-tracking system. Bugzilla is an enterprise-class piece of software that powers issue-tracking for hundreds of organizations around the world, tracking millions of bugs.

This documentation is maintained in DocBook 4.1.2 XML format. Changes are best submitted as plain text or XML diffs, attached to a bug filed in the Bugzilla Documentation component.

This is a development version of this guide. Information in it is subject to change before the 2.18 release of this guide (which will correspond with the 2.18 release of Bugzilla).

The most current version of this document can always be found on the Bugzilla Documentation Page.

List of Figures
4-1. Set Max Packet Size in MySQL
4-2. Other File::Temp error messages
4-3. Patch for File::Temp in Perl 5.6.0

List of Examples
4-1. Installing perl modules with CPAN
4-2. `.htaccess` files for Apache
5-1. Upgrading using CVS
5-2. Upgrading using the tarball
5-3. Upgrading using patches

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