Re: cygnus docbook tools/util
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 03:54:03PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
>
> i'm seriously thinking at resigning my intent to package docbook-tools
> or whatever. i still have grave diffuculties
> in understanding this mess.
>
What mess are you referring to? The docbook-utils, or package-making
in general?
> at the moment i am completely unable to produce any good package.
>
You could start by looking at someone else's package:
apt-get source cygnus-stylesheet
and look at all the files, esp debian/rules.
> i think that anybody being ready to package something should do it. so please
> feel free to take over my intent, since i neither started to working on.
>
No, that wasn't at all my intent. I simply wanted to see if I could
get the docbok-utils to work on debian w/o installing the rpms as
suggested here:
http://i18n.kde.org/doc/install/debian.html
which would probably hose all other debian sgml stuff.
Keep at it. :-)
Mark
> the other way, if it is up to me, i don't see the goal very near in the future.
>
> cheers
>
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:47:39AM -0500, Mark Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > While looking into Eric Bischoff's proposed new sgml specs (discussed
> > in a follow-up post), I decided to make a test package of
> > cygnus-stylesheets-II, aka docbook-utils. I haven't tested everything
> > in the package, but it hasn't failed yet.
> >
> > The new scripts provide a much better separation between the front &
> > back ends of processing. (I defer to Eric on this ...)
> >
> > As I believe Christian is adopting cygnus-stylesheets and Domenico is
> > packaging docbook-utils, I thought I should make a few points:
> >
> > - both can peacefully coexist on the same machine
> >
> > - docbook-utils is meant to *replace* cygnus-stylesheets (aka
> > docbook-tools in rpm-ville)
> >
> > - docbook-utils is intended to be part of an implementation of the new
> > specs, and where everything goes will be quite different from where
> > I put the files (/usr/lib//sgml/misc)
> >
> > * NOTE: It does create /etc/sgml/sgml.conf *
> >
> > - Relevant web pages:
> > http://i18n.kde.org/doc/install/
> > http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/
> >
> > - Fairly complete user docs are here:
> > http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/docs/docbook-utils/
> >
> > - apt-get url: deb http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/debian ./
> >
> > Mark
> >
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