On Fri, Oct 03, 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 02, 2003, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> I spent several hours today getting the docbook-toys from SuSE 8.2 working
>> with the OpenPKG Release 1.3 versions of docbook, openjade, and opensp, and
>> in the process fixed a permissions problem with the ISO files in docbook,
>
>I've looked at the permissions we had originally and the permissions
>you now have and I cannot see what is wrong. Ok, you have some more
>write permissions, but if this was the problem (that some process wants
>to write to the files), allowing writing is not ok. At least all files
>in our original package are readable for everyone which should be
>sufficient. So, can you give me more details what exactly was broken?
>Because I do not want to directly copy the permissions from the vendor
>tarball (because it contains the extra write permissions).
The files in the iso8879-sgml directory had 640 permissions. The line that
fixed it in the docbook.spec file is:
chmod a+r $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{l_prefix}/share/sgml/iso8879-sgml/*
Speaking of permissions and writing, I found yesterday evening the the
``pod2html'' program used to convert perl POD documentation to HTML wants
to write to the current directory which doesn't work too well if one is in
a system directory as a normal user.
...
>> BTW: The docbook-toys.spec file is ugly, since I haven't done anything
>> beyond getting the basics to work.
>
>I'm currently looking at the docbook-toys. But have you checked our
>"xmlto" package? It is similar stuff...
No I haven't. We're concentrating on getting our production and customer
systems switched to OpenPKG Release 1.3, and I don't have the resources to
deal with attempting to keep up with the current tree (particularly with
the recent switch in rpm and new macros).
We do most of our documentation on SuSE 8.2 systems, and the docbook-toys
work very well, particularly when one wants to produce printable
documentation in addition to html. I implemented the docbook- toys in
OpenPKG primarily so that we have the same tools available on FreeBSD
systems where our e-mail is processed. We were using Eric Bischoff's
docbook-tools on Caldera systems, but chose to go with the ones SuSE
provided when we switched to that early this year.
Bill
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