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Re: ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com:/pub/docbook-tools/README
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com:/pub/docbook-tools/README
- From: Eric Bischoff <ebisch at cybercable dot tm dot fr>
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:13:30 +0200
- CC: docbook-tools-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Caldera Deutschland
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010051736420.59397-100000@taygeta.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> Do you still maintain this package?
Current maintainers are Mark Galassi and me.
> > o The README file only mentions RPMs (s/RPMS/RPMs/, by the way) for Red
> > Hat, and fails to mention where to obtain the actual sources.
RPMS is the standardized name for the directory holding the RPMs used by
rpm ;-) so capitalization was correct.
The actual sources are in SOURCES/, according to the same standards. In
fact it's a working copy and the real sources come from many origins
upstream, including the one Norm mentions.
Reminder: you can find all those directories in
ftp://sourceware.cgnus.com/pub/docbook-tools/new-trials.
BTW Mark: it's time they move to docware/? I think the new versions are
stable enough by now.
> > o Moreover, it refers to sourceware.cygnus instead of sources.redhat.
I just gave the above address a try and it works.
> > o What is new-trials? (I found out now, but this should go to README
> > as well, IMO.)
Or new-trials/ moves to docware/ and becomes the official current
release ;-).
> > o I failed to find documentation on how to install all this, that is,
> > in which order, with which options, etc., on the web page.
This was already mentioned recently here. I did such a page for KDE at
http://i18n.kde.org/doc/install.html and we should definitely adapt it
to the sourceware web pages but so far I had not the time to do that
(and I don't even know if I have the rights). So the web pages are
completly outdated. Mark, your opinion on this?
> > o Those systems I use most of the time (Solaris, FreeBSD) do not use RPM,
> > is there also a nice .tar.gz available which features a nice configure
> > script?
Each package now (since last week) comes with its individal makefile as
a patch. Not all already use configure, but Mark convinced me to do that
too. Why are these Makefiles patches? Because upstream most of this
stuff is not unix-specific and works for Windows as well.
I'm currently doing a tgz package for slackware with a slackware guy. So
it's likely we will have both tgz and RPM - if he doesn't resign first
;-). I don't know if this tgz package will adapt to other
non-software-package-aware unices like FreeBSD and Solaris.
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