Author: ken
Date: Mon Feb 6 16:08:05 2017
New Revision: 18262
Log:
Biber - use versioned tarball from github, change name to biber from
biblatex-biber.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Mon Feb 6 15:54:32 2017 (r18261)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Mon Feb 6 16:08:05 2017 (r18262)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "05"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "06"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "02"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2017">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Feb 6 15:54:32
2017 (r18261)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Feb 6 16:08:05
2017 (r18262)
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
-->
+ <listitem>
+ <para>February 6th, 2017</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Use a versioned download of biber-2.6 from
+ github. This partially addresses
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8853">#8853</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>February 5th, 2017</para>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml Mon Feb 6 15:54:32 2017
(r18261)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml Mon Feb 6 16:08:05 2017
(r18262)
@@ -4,17 +4,13 @@
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
- <!-- when released, the directory is current instead of a version -->
- <!ENTITY biber-download-http
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/current/biblatex-biber.tar.gz";>
- <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp " ">
-<!-- <!ENTITY biber-download-http
"&sources-anduin-http;/biblatex-biber/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz">
-
- <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp
"&sources-anduin-ftp;/biblatex-biber/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.gz">-->
- <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "md5sum 87411d2d3c4787aa2d104d8068bdcb02">
- <!ENTITY biber-size "843 KB">
+ <!ENTITY biber-download-http
"https://github.com/plk/biber/archive/v&biber-version;.tar.gz";>
+ <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp " ">
+ <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "md5sum 0bb4b95df612b477c5f63250f33355da">
+ <!ENTITY biber-size "1.3 MB">
<!-- buildsize includes the installed biblatex -->
- <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "31 MB">
- <!ENTITY biber-time "0.3 SBU including tests">
+ <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "35 MB">
+ <!ENTITY biber-time "0.3 SBU including tests">
<!ENTITY biblatex-download-http
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-&biblatex-version;/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz";>
<!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp "">
@@ -31,7 +27,7 @@
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
- <title>biblatex-biber-&biber-version;</title>
+ <title>biber-&biber-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="biber">
<primary sortas="a-biber">Biber</primary>
@@ -144,7 +140,8 @@
(or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>)
</para>
- <note>
+ <note> <!-- FIXME remove this after our 8.0 release, so that it is noted
+ in at least one release of the book -->
<para>This version of <application>biber</application> requires at least
<application>perl-5.24.0</application>. If you are using an older version
of <command>perl</command> you may prefer to install v2.5 - for that see
@@ -160,13 +157,6 @@
</para>
<note>
-<!-- when a new release appears, use this para and link to sourceforge,
- until we have a versioned copy at anduin. -->
- <para>
- Although the tarball name is unversioned, it will untar to a
- correctly-versioned biblatex-biber-&biber-version; directory.
- </para>
-
<para>
It is possible to install all missing dependencies automatically.
But from <application>perl-5.22.0</application> onwards,
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