On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:02:57PM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > Looking at the change to docbook-xsl-nons, I decided it was time to > show my ignorance. Until now I've always regarded this as a "black > box" and was happy to just do what the book did while it appeared to > work. [ 'Appeared' because we now know we were using the wrong > version of 1.79.2 ]. > > So, why do we repeat the instructions ? AFAICS we add > "rewriteSystem" and similarly "rewriteURI". My oldest local copy of > the book is 7.6 (which was using 1.78.1) and in that the two adds > are repeated. > > In the current book the two adds are repeated twice. But the first > 2 pairs are now for cdn.docbook.org with the final pair using the > old sourceforge site (and for that, xsl rather than xsl-nons). > > I can see the point of adding SF, and of course it has a different > directory structure to confuse us, but why do we add twice for the > main location ? > After looking through svn blame, and looking at a couple of revisions in trac, I can summarise this as "Should have gone to Specsavers".
I'd copied lines without noticing that they were not identical. What we actually have is rewriteSystem and rewriteURI pairs for: release/xsl-nons/1.79.2 release/xsl-nons/current (both now bocbook.org) and now the fallback is still sourceforge so release/xsl/current what we originally had was release/xsl/1.xx.y release/xsl/current release/xsl The latter pair were changed to 'delegateSystem' and 'delegateURI' in r3617, but if using 'rewrite' and xsl/current is good enough then so be it - I'll try to stay away from the entrails of this black art. ĸen -- The beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greates. -- du Garbandier -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
