On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:15:58PM +0200, Máté Eckl wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 06:43:40PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 06:30:15PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > > > Máté Eckl <ecklm94@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I don't really know autoconfig, but isn't that possible to prioritize the > > > > alternatives? For example, use docbook2x-man if available, if it is not, use > > > > db2x-docbook2man, if neither of them is present, use docbook2man? And of course > > > > fail, if none of them is present. > > > > > > I think it would be much better to display an error and just continue > > > without building documentation. > > > > We can also fallback and make a second search for the package in > > ArchLinux too, right? > > So we are looking for docbook2x-man or db2x_docbook2man binaries, right? > > Btw, which of these are present on Debian/fedora? > > For ArchLinux: > In the official repo there is no binary (nor package) like this. > > docbook2x provides the following binaries: > - usr/bin/db2x_manxml > - usr/bin/db2x_texixml > - usr/bin/db2x_xsltproc > - usr/bin/docbook2man > - usr/bin/docbook2texi > - usr/bin/sgml2xml-isoent > - usr/bin/utf8trans > > docbook-utils provide these: > - usr/bin/db2dvi > - usr/bin/db2html > - usr/bin/db2man > - usr/bin/db2pdf > - usr/bin/db2ps > - usr/bin/db2rtf > - usr/bin/db2tex > - usr/bin/db2texi > - usr/bin/db2txt > - usr/bin/docbook2dvi > - usr/bin/docbook2html > - usr/bin/docbook2man > - usr/bin/docbook2pdf > - usr/bin/docbook2ps > - usr/bin/docbook2rtf > - usr/bin/docbook2tex > - usr/bin/docbook2texi > - usr/bin/docbook2txt > - usr/bin/jw > - usr/bin/sgmldiff > > For other packages related to docbook, see [1], but the rest seems irrelevant. > There is no *db2* package here. > > In the Arch User Repository docbook-to-man provides: > ./usr/bin > ./usr/bin/instant > ./usr/bin/docbook-to-man > > No other packages seem to be relevant. There are some *db2* packages, but they > are not related to man generation. > > [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=docbook > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=docbook > -- docbook2man has always worked flawlessly for me under Slackware. Whatever you do for other distributions, please don't break that. Cheers ... Duncan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
