On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 15:40 -0500, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote: > > > > 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. > > I think the updated XSL files are what's making it work. The stock > docbook xsl files are: > > $ yum list | grep docbook-style-xsl > docbook-style-xsl.noarch 1.69.1-5.1 rhel-x86_64-server-5 Interestingly enough, without the updated XSL files it seemed to be working ok, it was just ungodly slow and kicking up a ton of warnings (it was trying to fetch them off of the hosting web server at such a high rate it was being limited out). > and I don't know that we can assume anyone has updated them. However, I > don't actually build git on my RHEL machines, so I could might be wrong. > > All that being said, I am willing to accept RHEL5 as collateral damage > if the new defaults Just Work for the majority of other platforms. > > -Peff I don't personally see this as a stopper. After all, asciidoc wasn't a default install either. -- -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