On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Devrim Gündüz <dev...@gunduz.org> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Dave, >> > >> > On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 09:41 +0000, Dave Page wrote: >> >> Hmmm. It's because the version of Sphinx for EL7 and friends is really >> >> quite old. We could probably add some Makefile magic to detect and >> >> change it, but frankly it's probably easier (and will certainly be >> >> much quicker) for you to just patch conf.py. >> > >> > Ok, patched conf.py. That said, Sphinx in EL6 is 0.something, and even >> > does not >> > accept the default parameters. We may want to disable docs builds on EL >> > 6. >> >> We can't not ship the docs. Or are you suggesting we pull the RPM from >> another build and use that? It is just HTML files and images after >> all. >> > > Not at all knowing what Devrim was thinking, but perhaps you need something > like what postgresql.org does for "difficult build dependencies". Which is > build a snapshot tarfile that includes the *prebuilt* documentation, and the > same for releases of course. They don't go in git, but they go in the > tarballs (we do that both for the docs and for things like the bison output > in pg.org). And the tarballs contain nothing platform-specific (I assume), > so they can be built on a platform that has easy access to those tools.
Yeah, that could work. Though "difficult dependencies" is a stretch here - it's really just that sphinx hasn't been updated in EPEL in ages. It might be easiest to just get that RPM refreshed and be done with it. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
