[sr-dev] Why fetch docbook stylesheets remotely?

[Olle E. Johansson]

16 okt 2009 kl. 16.42 skrev Jan Janak:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Olle E. Johansson <oej at edvina.net>  
> wrote:
>>
>> 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!
>
> In that case simply download the stylesheets somewhere and add the
> location to the catalog file in sip-router/docbook/catalog.xml (but do
> not commit, this should be your local change). Then it should work.
>
>> Had very poor connections during Astricon, so I could not fix this.
>> Thanks for the explanation, we need to store it somewhere...
>
> By the way, the docbook build system should not overwrite READMEs if
> the stylesheets are missing or if you terminate the build process,
> that's a bug. I will fix it as soon as I am finished with some other
> debugging I am doing right now.

I consider it a bug too now ;-) Thanks.


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