On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:37:38AM +0200, Peter Finderup Lund wrote: > In the meantime I've tried to install the debiandoc-sgml version in > unstable by (all as root) : > > o making a backup copy of /etc/apt/sources.list > o inserting a deb-src line pointing to an unstable repository. Using > deb-src should be safe. > o apt-get update > o apt-get --compile source debiandoc-sgml > > This should have created a deb file that could be installed on a stable > system.
Replace "should" with "could" :) The packages in unstable are fine-tuned for unstable, which can make them work improperly on stable. In practice, most of them work with little or no modification on stable, though. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/legeplads/debpol/debian-policy$ debiandoc2latexps > policy.sgml > nsgmls:policy.sgml:4:45:E: cannot find "version.ent"; tried "version.ent", > "/usr/local/share/sgml/version.ent", "/usr/local/lib/sgml/version.ent", > "/usr/lib/sgml/version.ent" This happens because the version.ent file is automatically generated by the makefile, and default one doesn't exist. Try using make. > saspconvert: policy.sgml:4577 (input line 9088): identifier `config files' is > undefined > > This looks to me like an sgml file that is not quite in a consistent > state, which is ok, given that it's a CVS snapshot :) Looks that way, yes... someone used &config files; or something like that (?) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
