gnats installation

[Wes Barris <wesb@networkcs.com>]

Hello,

I am continuing to muddle through the installation procedure for
gnats.  The "mkcat" command is giving this error:

root@kirby# sudo -u gnats mkcat
query-pr: The directory /usr/local/com/gnatsdb does not exist for database default
query-pr: The directory /usr/local/com/gnatsdb does not exist for database default

I found that it is complaining becuase a dirctory doesn't exist:

root@kirby# fgrep query-pr /usr/local/libexec/gnats/mkcat 
GNATS_DB_DIR="`query-pr --print-directory-for-database`"
query-pr --list-categories | awk -F: '{print $1}' | while read i
root@kirby# query-pr --print-directory-for-database
query-pr: The directory /usr/local/com/gnatsdb does not exist for database default

I haven't seen this directory mentioned in the web page installation
instructions:

http://sources.redhat.com/gnats/3_113_manual/gnats_4.html#SEC55

Was this supposed to be created by the installation?  Am I just
supposed to "mkdir /usr/local/com/gnatsdb"?

If I do, I just get more errors.  It seems that there is an important
step missing in the instructions but I don't know what it is:

root@kirby# mkdir /usr/local/com
root@kirby# mkdir /usr/local/com/gnatsdb
root@kirby# query-pr --print-directory-for-database
query-pr: Unable to read config file /usr/local/com/gnatsdb/gnats-adm/dbconfig


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