Two things -

If you're working on the user guide and editing the Docbook XML and want to
see your changes live without cooking the recipe, you can just run yelp
/full/path/to/userguide.xml (Please note - it has to be the full path, you
can't just do yelp userguide.xml).  If yelp starts up and the page is blank
and yelp can't display it, there is a problem with your XML.

Verify it by running:

xmllint --noout --xinclude --noent --postvalid  foresight-user-guide.xml

The output in the terminal will tell you the line numbers and it's
corresponding error.  (No closed tag, etc).

I would recommend doing the above, at a minimum making sure the XML
validates, before applying a patch and sending it in.

Paul


On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Tomas Forsman
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Den Sun, 17 May 2009 15:35:29 -0400
> skrev [Foresight-devel]  So you want to work on the User Guide?:
>
> Perfect, this one is just perfect. I love the info about recipe and
> cook it. Makes everything easier for me that does that almost everyday.
>
>
>
> > I took some time today to write up a small howto... It does need to go
> > somewhere more accessible than the mailing for sure, but I have
> > exhausted my free hours away from my family for now :) Here it goes
> > verbatin and full of markup tags.
> >
> > == Playing with the Foresight User Guide ==
> > * Create a foresight-devel (or any other name for that matter)
> > directory in your home directory
> > {code}
> > mkdir ~/foresight-devel
> > {code}
> > * Checkout the source code from the mercurial repository
> > {code}
> > cd ~/foresight-devel
> > hg clone http://hg.foresightlinux.org/hg/foresight-user-guide-2
> > {code}
> > * You should now have the following files available:
> > {code}
> > $ ls -l
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel    0 2009-05-17 14:27 COPYING
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel 2544 2009-05-17 14:27 foresight-icon.png
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel  193 2009-05-17 14:27
> > foresight-user-guide -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel  236 2009-05-17
> > 14:27 foresight-user-guide.desktop drwxrwxr-x 3 omaciel omaciel 4096
> > 2009-05-17 14:27 guide -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel 1528 2009-05-17
> > 14:27 Makefile -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel    0 2009-05-17 14:27 NEWS
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel    0 2009-05-17 14:27 README
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel  321 2009-05-17 14:27 TODO
> > {code}
> >
> > * This shows you that the User Guide has been developed to be easily
> > packaged.  The actual text that makes up the guide itself reside in
> > the all the XML files in the *guide* directory:
> >
> > {code}
> > $ ls -l
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel 39625 2009-05-17 14:27 applications.xml
> > drwxrwxr-x 3 omaciel omaciel  4096 2009-05-17 14:27 figures
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel   767 2009-05-17 14:27 foresight2.xml
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel  2333 2009-05-17 14:27
> > foresight-user-guide.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel  5304
> > 2009-05-17 14:27 getinvolved.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel  6375
> > 2009-05-17 14:27 help.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel  2653
> > 2009-05-17 14:27 installation.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel 19676
> > 2009-05-17 14:27 legal.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel omaciel 21273
> > 2009-05-17 14:27 post-install-config.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel
> > omaciel  7941 2009-05-17 14:27 preface.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 omaciel
> > omaciel 14239 2009-05-17 14:27 software.xml {code}
> >
> > * The xml files can be edited using any text editor!
> > * In order to test your changes, you have the choice of:
> > ** Compiling the package "by hand" running make && make install
> > ** Packaging it locally, which I prefer in order to validate:
> > *** My changes didn't break anything
> > *** My system is not overriden with unmanaged code :)
> >
> > Assumming you took the second option, then:
> >
> > * Create a conary context file:
> > {code}
> > cat ~/.conaryrc
> >
> > user *.rpath.org USERNAME PASSWORD
> > [fl2-devel]
> > autoResolve True
> > buildLabel              foresight.rpath....@fl:2-devel
> > installLabelPath        foresight.rpath....@fl:2-devel-kernel
> > foresight.rpath....@fl:2-devel conary.rpath....@rpl:2-qa
> > conary.rpath....@rpl:1-compat
> > shortenGroupFlavors True
> > {code}
> >
> > * Create a directory where you will checkout the existing
> > foresight-user-guide package
> > {code}
> > mkdir -p ~/packaging/fl2-devel
> > cd ~/packaging/fl2-devel
> > cvc context fl2-devel
> > cvc co foresight-user-guide
> > cd foresight-user-guide
> > {code}
> >
> > * Now that we have the package checked out, we can modify its recipe
> > to use a tarball containing our changes instead of pulling from the
> > mercurial repository. Just to be clear:
> > ** We still have to create the tarball I mentioned above
> > ** We will comment out the line that starts with
> > r.addMercurialSnapshot by adding a # in front of it
> > ** We will add a r.addArchive with the name of the tarball we generate
> > * So the recipe will then look like:
> > {code}
> > #
> > # Copyright (c) 2007 Foresight Linux
> > # This file is distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
> > # A copy is available at
> > http://www.rpath.com/permanent/mit-license.html #
> >
> > class ForesightUserGuide(PackageRecipe):
> >     name = 'foresight-user-guide'
> >     version = '0.0.6'
> >
> >     buildRequires = ['desktop-file-utils:runtime', 'make:runtime']
> >
> >     def setup(r):
> >         #r.addMercurialSnapshot('
> http://hg.foresightlinux.org/hg/foresight-user-guide-2',
> > tag='%(version)s')
> >         r.addArchive('foresight-user-guide.tar.gz')
> >         r.MakeInstall()
> > {code}
> >
> > * Create a tar.gz file of the entire
> > ~/foresight-devel/foresight-user-guide-2 directory and save it as
> > foresight-user-guide.tar.gz in the
> > ~/packaging/fl2-devel/foresight-user-guide directory.
> >
> > * Then cook it with cvc or rmake (I have not included my rmakerc
> > context here):
> >
> > {code}
> > cvc cook foresight-user-guide.recipe
> > {code}
> >
> > * You can then inspect the resulting chnageset file:
> >
> > {code}
> > conary scs --ls foresight-user-guide-0.0.6.ccs
> > {code}
> >
> > * Better yet, install it and see your work "live":
> >
> > {code}
> > sudo conary update foresight-user-guide-0.0.6.ccs
> > {code}
> >
> > * Are you happy now? Great! Now generate a nice patch and send it our
> > way so that we can review it and apply it.
> >
> > {code}
> > cd ~/foresight-devel/foresight-user-guide-2
> > hg diff > ~/Desktop/fixesforwebsite.patch
> > {code}
> >
> > * Send us the ~/Desktop/fixesforwebsite.patch file and feel good about
> > yourself! :)
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Tomas Forsman
>
> Foresight Linux Developer
> http://www.foresightlinux.se
> http://www.foresightlinux.org
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