Re: [SUMMARY] Divergance with LSB spec
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:21:22AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Mark" == Mark Johnson <mark@phy.duke.edu> writes:
>
> Mark> However, it sounds like psgml chokes on the CATALOG directive in the
> Mark> super-catalog:
>
> It may turn out that psgml does suppor the CATALOG
> directive. The problems are twofold:
> a) /etc/sgml/catalog contains an entry for /usr/lib/sgml/catalog,
> and that file happens to be a symlink to /etc/sgml/catalog. The
> resulting circular link is something that gives psgml pause
> (though when it runs out of space it does come back with an
> error).
This is caused by sgmltools-2. the next version of sgml-base will
conflict with this package.
> b) The relative paths in /etc/sgml/transition.cat imply that the
> dtd's should be found in a subdir under /etc/sgml, which they
> obviously are not present in. A BASE directive, at least, is
> required, and I don't yet know if psgml supports base
> directives.
I'll at least add the BASE directive to transitional.cat.
> Mark> http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/7085/0/5229979/
>
> Mark> Feedback is encouraged.
>
> Are you dropping support for the layout described in
> /usr/share/doc/sgml-base/sgml_layout.txt.gz ? I think dropping
> support would be a shame.
No, we are definitely not dropping support for this. In fact, there's
already a wishlist filed against sgml-base to provide a tool for this.
Thanks,
Ardo
Reply to: