source: general/genutils/rarian.xml@ 2bc2e4a

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY rarian-download-http "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/rarian/0.8/rarian-0.8.1.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY rarian-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/rarian/0.8/rarian-0.8.1.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY rarian-md5sum        "75091185e13da67a0ff4279de1757b94">
  <!ENTITY rarian-size          "317 KB">
  <!ENTITY rarian-buildsize     "5.9 MB">
  <!ENTITY rarian-time          "0.2 SBU">

<!ENTITY TEMPLATE-version          "TEMPLATE-version">
]>

<sect1 id="rarian" xreflabel="Rarian-&rarian-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="rarian.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Rarian-&rarian-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="rarian">
    <primary sortas="a-Rarian">Rarian</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Rarian</title>

    <para>The <application>Rarian</application> package is a documentation
    metadata library based on the proposed Freedesktop.org spec. <application>
    Rarian</application> is designed to be a replacement for <application>
    ScrollKeeper</application>.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&rarian-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&rarian-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &rarian-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &rarian-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &rarian-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &rarian-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Rarian Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="libxslt"/> (rarian-sk-extract will not be built without this)</para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/rarian"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Rarian</title>

    <para>Install <application>Rarian</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>rarian-example, rarian-sk-config, rarian-sk-extract,
        rarian-sk-gen-uuid, rarian-sk-get-cl, rarian-sk-get-content-list,
        rarian-sk-get-extended-content-list, rarian-sk-get-scripts,
        rarian-sk-install, rarian-sk-migrate, rarian-sk-preinstall,
        rarian-sk-rebuild, and rarian-sk-update</seg>
        <seg>librarian{so,a}</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/rarian, /usr/share/help, /usr/share/librarian/manual,
        /usr/share/librarian/Templates/C, and /usr/var/lib/rarian</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-example">
        <term><command>rarian-example</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Prints a nice list of all available documents found by the
          library.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-example">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-example">rarian-example</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-config">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-config</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Emulates scrollkeeper-config.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-config">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-config">rarian-sk-config</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-extract">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-extract</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Wrapper around xsltproc to mimic scrollkeeper-extract.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-extract">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-extract">rarian-sk-extract</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-gen-uuid">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-gen-uuid</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Generates a unique (random) uuid.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-gen-uuid">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-gen-uuid">rarian-sk-gen-uuid</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-get-cl">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-get-cl</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Gets a content list (category tree).</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-get-cl">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-get-cl">rarian-sk-get-cl</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-get-content-list">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-get-content-list</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Simple wrapper to make calling scrollkeeper-get-cl easier.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-get-content-list">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-get-content-list">rarian-sk-get-content-list</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-get-extended-content-list">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-get-extended-content-list</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Simple wrapper to make calling scrollkeeper-get-cl (extended) easier.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-get-extended-content-list">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-get-extended-content-list">rarian-sk-get-extended-content-list</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-get-scripts">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-get-scripts</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Does nothing.
          Emulates scrollkeeper-get-index-from-index-from-docpath,
          scrollkeeper-get-toc-from-docpath, and
          scrollkeeper-get-toc-from-id.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-get-scripts">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-get-scripts">rarian-sk-get-scripts</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-install">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-install</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Does nothing. Emulates scrollkeeper-install and scrollkeeper-uninstall.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-install">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-install">rarian-sk-install</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-migrate">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-migrate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Takes in a directory full of omf's, reads and parses them and spews out an equivalent scroll file.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-migrate">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-migrate">rarian-sk-migrate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-preinstall">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-preinstall</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Creates the omf file by reading an existing omf file and
          replacing the url for a resource with the url.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-preinstall">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-preinstall">rarian-sk-preinstall</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-rebuild">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-rebuild</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Simple wrapper script to emulate scrollkeeper-rebuilddb.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-rebuild">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-rebuild">rarian-sk-rebuild</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="rarian-sk-update">
        <term><command>rarian-sk-update</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This is compatible with the scrollkeeper-update script that's
          required to be run when installing new omf files.  It converts the omf
          files into new-style scrolls.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian rarian-sk-update">
            <primary sortas="b-rarian-sk-update">rarian-sk-update</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>


      <varlistentry id="librarian">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>librarian.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>API to build a list of available meta data files and allows access to these.</para>
          <indexterm zone="rarian librarian">
            <primary sortas="c-librarian">librarian.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>