Index: general/sysutils/mcs.xml
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--- general/sysutils/mcs.xml	(revision 7c6f36c5d4bf34705bb87376351eb62415e248ab)
+++ general/sysutils/mcs.xml	(revision 7c6f36c5d4bf34705bb87376351eb62415e248ab)
@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!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 mcs-download-http "http://sacredspiral.co.uk/~nenolod/mcs/mcs-&mcs-version;.tgz">
+  <!ENTITY mcs-download-ftp  " ">
+  <!ENTITY mcs-md5sum        "d09b42e9d51ea32c6326f0bbcad86c9e">
+  <!ENTITY mcs-size          "62 KB">
+  <!ENTITY mcs-buildsize     "1.1 MB">
+  <!ENTITY mcs-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="mcs" xreflabel="mcs-&mcs-version;">
+  <?dbhtml filename="mcs.html"?>
+
+  <sect1info>
+    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
+    <date>$Date$</date>
+  </sect1info>
+
+  <title>mcs-&mcs-version;</title>
+
+  <indexterm zone="mcs">
+    <primary sortas="a-mcs">mcs</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <sect2 role="package">
+    <title>Introduction to mcs</title>
+
+    <para>The <application>mcs</application> package is a library and set of
+    tools which abstract the storage of configuration settings away from
+    userland applications. There are similar projects like this (such as
+    <application>GConf</application>), but unlike those projects,
+    <application>mcs</application> strictly handles abstraction. It does not
+    impose any specific data storage requirement, nor is it tied to any
+    desktop environment or software suite.</para>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
+    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mcs-download-http;"/></para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mcs-download-ftp;"/></para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download MD5 sum: &mcs-md5sum;</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download size: &mcs-size;</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Estimated disk space required: &mcs-buildsize;</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Estimated build time: &mcs-time;</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">mcs Dependencies</bridgehead>
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
+    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="GConf"/> and
+    <xref linkend="kdelibs"/></para>
+
+    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
+    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mcs"/></para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="installation">
+    <title>Installation of mcs</title>
+
+    <para>Install <application>mcs</application> by
+    running the following commands:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's|libmcs|../../&amp;|' src/backends/kconfig/kconfig.cc &amp;&amp;
+
+./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 &amp;&amp;
+install -v -m644 -D README /usr/share/doc/mcs-&mcs-version;/README</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="commands">
+    <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para><option>--enable-gconf</option>: Use this option if you have
+    <application>GConf</application> installed and wish to build the
+    <application>GConf</application> backend.</para>
+
+    <para><option>--enable-kconfig</option>: Use this option if you have
+    <application>kdelibs</application> installed and wish to build the
+    <application>KConfig</application> backend. If KDE and/or
+    <application>Qt</application> are not installed in
+    <filename class='directory'>/usr</filename>, you must pass additional
+    parameters to the <command>configure</command> script to identify the
+    location of the libraries and interface headers (e.g.,
+    <option>LDFLAGS=-L/opt/kde/lib</option>
+    <option>CXXFLAGS="-I/opt/kde/include -I/opt/qt/include"</option>. It is
+    not necessary to identify the location of the
+    <application>Qt</application> libraries.</para>
+
+    <para>For additional information about the various storage backends
+    (including the default XDG-compliant backend), see the
+    <filename>README</filename> file in the source tree.</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="configuration">
+    <title>Configuring mcs</title>
+
+    <para>There are various ways to configure <application>mcs</application>
+    to use a specific backend on a site-wide or individual user basis. See
+    section 2 of the <filename>README</filename> file in the source tree for
+    details.</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="content">
+    <title>Contents</title>
+
+    <segmentedlist>
+      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
+
+      <seglistitem>
+        <seg>mcs-getconfval, mcs-info, mcs-query-backends and
+        mcs-setconfval</seg>
+        <seg>libmcs.so and backend storage modules</seg>
+        <seg>/usr/include/mcs, /usr/lib/mcs and
+        /usr/share/doc/mcs-&mcs-version;</seg>
+      </seglistitem>
+    </segmentedlist>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+      <varlistentry id="mcs-getconfval">
+        <term><command>mcs-getconfval</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>queries <application>mcs</application> for a configuration
+          value.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="mcs mcs-getconfval">
+            <primary sortas="b-mcs-getconfval">mcs-getconfval</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="mcs-info">
+        <term><command>mcs-info</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>displays information about the current installation and
+          configuration of <application>mcs</application>.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="mcs mcs-info">
+            <primary sortas="b-mcs-info">mcs-info</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="mcs-query-backends">
+        <term><command>mcs-query-backends</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>queries <application>mcs</application> to determine what
+          backends are available.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="mcs mcs-query-backends">
+            <primary sortas="b-mcs-query-backends">mcs-query-backends</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="mcs-setconfval">
+        <term><command>mcs-setconfval</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>instructs <application>mcs</application> to change a
+          configuration value.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="mcs mcs-setconfval">
+            <primary sortas="b-mcs-setconfval">mcs-setconfval</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry id="libmcs">
+        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libmcs.so</filename></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>contains the API functions required by the
+          <application>mcs</application> userspace tools.</para>
+          <indexterm zone="mcs libmcs">
+            <primary sortas="c-libmcs.so">libmcs.so</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
Index: general/sysutils/sysutils.xml
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--- general/sysutils/sysutils.xml	(revision 0de75e48654eef4cf20b9cacb1983ff84b12275e)
+++ general/sysutils/sysutils.xml	(revision 7c6f36c5d4bf34705bb87376351eb62415e248ab)
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@
   <para>This chapter contains mainly hardware utilities. It also contains
   some applications used by other applications in the book for
-  installation purposes.</para>
+  installation or configuration purposes.</para>
 
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="gpm.xml"/>
@@ -35,4 +35,5 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="dbus.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="hal.xml"/>
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="mcs.xml"/>
 
 </chapter>
