[sr-dev] Why fetch docbook stylesheets remotely?

Olle E. Johansson oej at edvina.net
Fri Oct 16 16:30:22 CEST 2009


15 okt 2009 kl. 17.03 skrev Jan Janak:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Juha Heinanen <jh at tutpro.com> wrote:
>> Olle E. Johansson writes:
>>
>>  > Is there any particular reason for why we always fetch docbook  
>> style
>>  > sheets over HTTP when running "make README" ?
>>
>> also schema generation required net access, but henning fixed it.
>> perhaps similar fix is needed here.
>
> I just tried to build a couple READMEs in modules and both files with
> docbook 4.2 and 4.4 seem to build fine on Debian with docbook-xsl
> package installed.
>
> If I uninstall the package then the build system fetches the XSL
> stylesheets from the net.
>
> Olle, if you have the XSL stylesheets in a non-standard location then
> modify the file docbook/catalog.xml so that the build system can find
> them. There is a small example (commented out) which points to a
> directory in my home directory.
>
> If you are no debian then just install package debian-xsl.

Well, I'm on OS/X, but I understand the issue now, thanks!

Had very poor connections during Astricon, so I could not fix this.
Thanks for the explanation, we need to store it somewhere...

Greetings from Arizona!

/O



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