source: general/genutils/rarian.xml@ ca89597d

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY rarian-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/rarian/0.8/rarian-0.8.1.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY rarian-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/rarian/0.8/rarian-0.8.1.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY rarian-md5sum        "75091185e13da67a0ff4279de1757b94">
  <!ENTITY rarian-size          "317 KB">
  <!ENTITY rarian-buildsize     "6 MB">
  <!ENTITY rarian-time          "0.2 SBU">
]>

<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"/>
    (<command>rarian-sk-extract</command> will not be built without this) and
    <xref linkend="DocBook"/> (without this, <application>Rarian</application>
    scripts source DTDs from the net)</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 Library</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 <command>scrollkeeper-config</command>.</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>is a wrapper around xsltproc to mimic <command>
          scrollkeeper-extract</command>.</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>is a simple wrapper to make calling <command>scrollkeeper-get-cl
          </command> 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>is a simple wrapper to make calling <command>scrollkeeper-get-cl
          </command> (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 <command>scrollkeeper-get-index-from-index-from-docpath</command>,
          <command>scrollkeeper-get-toc-from-docpath</command>, and
          <command>scrollkeeper-get-toc-from-id</command>.</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 <command>scrollkeeper-install
          </command> and <command>scrollkeeper-uninstall</command>.</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>is a simple wrapper script to emulate <command>
          scrollkeeper-rebuilddb</command>.</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>is compatible with the <command>scrollkeeper-update</command> 
          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>is the 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>