[Secure-testing-team] running a local version of the tracker

[Michael S Gilbert]

hi all,

i'm planning on fixing up some aspects of the tracker, so i have
started by figuring out how to get './bin/test-web-server' up and
running.

a couple of things are required to do this.  first of all you need to
make sure you have the python-apsw and thttpd packages installed, and
you need Florian's servinvoke:

  git clone http://git.enyo.de/fw/debian/servinvoke.git/

note that i had to make the following change to get this to compile
correctly with gcc4.3:

  --- servinvoke/src/main.c	2009-08-23 17:06:23.000000000 -0400
  +++ servinvoke-mod/src/main.c	2009-08-23 17:00:02.000000000 -0400 @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
   #include <sys/stat.h>
   #include <sys/un.h>
   #include <unistd.h>
  +#include <limits.h>
 
   static void usage (void);

now, i can run the test webserver:
  
  $ ./bin/test-web-server

which can be access from a web browser at http://localhost:10605/tracker.
however, it is not populated with any of the secure-testing data (i.e. 
skeletons of the pages are there, but affected packages, version info, 
etc are not). any ideas on what i need to do differently to get this to 
be populated with real data?

Florian, it would be very useful have servinvoke in the main debian
archives.  are you planning to upload it?

mike