Opened 15 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#2647 closed task (fixed)

xmlto-0.0.21

Reported by: DJ Lucas Owned by: Wayne Blaszczyk
Priority: normal Milestone: x-future
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords: xmlto
Cc:

Description

Is now a required dependency for alsa-utils, though we could probably pre-generate man pages and apply as a patch for alsa and eliminate the docbook stack.

Thoughts?

Change History (11)

comment:1 by DJ Lucas, 15 years ago

patch created for alsa-utils, probably no need for this in the book now as it is simple cmmi with --prefix=/usr.

comment:2 by Ag. Hatzimanikas, 15 years ago

Needed also for dbus, and also (at least) for git, elinks, bogofilter (not currently in the book, some are pending), and also Greg uses it in the DIY project.

comment:3 by DJ Lucas, 15 years ago

Required or Optional? I only see the point of putting a cmmi package into the book if it is a required dependency, not that xmlto is a huge maintenance burden either though. Feel free to drop it in. According to my logs, it is optional for DBus-1.2.4.

Alsa-utils was a special case as it doesn't even check for it, it just bails during make. I just generated the single man page and intend to run with it for BLFS so that you don't have to have the entire dockbook stack handy for a utility installed very early (at least in my builds) in the process. Haven't gotten to git or elinks and don't know what bogofilter is, but I will get there eventually.

comment:4 by ken@…, 15 years ago

For dbus, it's no longer even useful! Yes, the configure script goes through the motions and correctly reports if xmlto was (not) found. But that makes no difference to the .xml and .html docs, they are shipped and unaltered even if --enable-xml-docs is forced.

I suppose this is an advance from the days when dbus required xmlto, but quite frankly I'm a simple man and I prefer it when packages do what they say ;-)

comment:5 by bdubbs@…, 15 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to bdubbs@…
Status: newassigned

comment:6 by bdubbs@…, 15 years ago

Milestone: 6.4future
Owner: changed from bdubbs@… to blfs-book@…
Status: assignednew

Reassigning to future because it does not seem to be needed for 6.4.

comment:7 by Ag. Hatzimanikas, 15 years ago

libXtst and libXcomposite (both from Xorg libraries) can use xmlto.

comment:8 by Ag. Hatzimanikas, 15 years ago

Keywords: xmlto added

Current host:

https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto/browser

Previous host:

http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/xmlto/stable/

Runtime dependencies:

libxslt and DocBook*

I agree, that as long is not required by any package, we can avoid the hassle to maintain this package for updates, afterall is just a bash script.

However, I will try to list the packages (if I find any) that have some use of it, so it can be used in future, when (if ever) xmlto will go into the book.

comment:9 by Wayne Blaszczyk, 14 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to Wayne Blaszczyk
Status: newassigned

comment:10 by Wayne Blaszczyk, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Added xmlto-0.0.23 to book.

comment:11 by bdubbs@…, 7 years ago

Milestone: futurex-future

Milestone renamed

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