On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 12:54 -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:48:29PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:38:55AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:15:16AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > > Andi, I would be curious to hear which asciidoc and docbook-xsl versions > > > you are using. > > > > I see this with the git rpms in opensuse 11.3 which I didn't build. > > But presumably it's built with asciidoc 8.4.5-5.1 and 1.75.2-7.1 > > Thanks. I think technically that is a bug in opensuse's packaging, as > they are not setting the right knobs for their version. However, I think > these days we can make it easier for them. Perhaps it is time to apply > this: > > -- >8 -- > Subject: [PATCH] docs: default to more modern toolset > > When the ASCIIDOC8 and ASCIIDOC_NO_ROFF knobs were built, > many people were still on asciidoc 7 and using older > versions of docbook-xsl. These days, even the almost > 2-year-old Debian stable needs these knobs turned. > > So let's turn them by default. The new knobs ASCIIDOC7 and > ASCIIDOC_ROFF can be used to get the old behavior if people > are on older systems. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > --- > These defaults work on Debian stable and further. It sounds like > opensuse 11.3, too. I don't know about Fedora, but I suspect they are at > least as far along as Debian stable. > > RHEL5 has asciidoc8, but docbook-xsl 1.69, which means it still needs > ASCIIDOC_ROFF enabled. RHEL6 is just out last week. So we are > technically breaking at least RHEL5 people (along with anybody with > ancient systems) until they tweak their knobs. Once I imported the DocBook XML XSL 4.5 files into my local cache it seemed to make the man pages just fine on my RHEL5 machine even with the posted patch applied. [root@host ~]# rpm -qi asciidoc Name : asciidoc Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 8.6.3 Vendor: Dag Apt Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/ Release : 1.el5.rf Build Date: Thu 18 Nov 2010 08:35:22 AM EST ... [root@host ~]# rpm -qi docbook-utils Name : docbook-utils Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.6.14 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 5.1 Build Date: Wed 12 Jul 2006 03:55:00 AM EDT I didn't inspect each and every one for errors, but I didn't see any problems in the ones I did look at. -- -Drew Northup N1XIM AKA RvnPhnx on OPN ________________________________________________ "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html