From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Mead To: "Eric S. Raymond" Cc: Mark Galassi , "Eric S. Raymond" , docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools... Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20000704113106.A15838@thyrsus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00206.html On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Eric S. Raymond spewed into the bitstream: ESR>Mark Galassi : ESR>> ESR>> Eric> The < http://sourceware.cygnus.com/docbook-tools/ > page ESR>> Eric> directs me to ESR>> Eric> < ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com:/pub/docbook-tools >. That ESR>> Eric> server is perpetually swamped. Going to one of the mirrors, ESR>> Eric> I find a docbook-3.1-5.noarch.rpm, but it does not contain ESR>> Eric> any of the db2* scripts referenced on the DocBook page. ESR>> Eric> Where are those scripts? ESR>> ESR>> There should be several RPMs on that ftp site. The scripts you seek ESR>> are in the stylesheets RPM. Also make sure you don't only get the ESR>> noarch RPMs. ESR> ESR>OK, what is the actual stylesheet RPM? You didn't specify, and all I ESR>can find is SRPMs and tarballs. ESR> ESR>Would it be too much to ask that these things actually be described ESR>on the DocBook tools page? ESR> ESR>Every time I go near SGML I get headaches... I started fooling with this stuff early last fall and I went through similiar travails. I captured what I did in a colophon for one of the documents I created in docbook/sgml. Maybe this will help: http://www.moongroup.com/docs/mailhelp-HOWTO/z632.html hth! -- Chuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMall.com csm@LinuxMall.com GnuPG Public Key Available: http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Mead To: "Eric S. Raymond" Cc: Mark Galassi , "Eric S. Raymond" , docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: I'm trying to set up docbook-tools... Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 08:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20000704113106.A15838@thyrsus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00004.html Message-ID: <20000704084500.0QDNyGhI7h5Cb0pS76ap7S3IOl-xhJE-7-7IxtAxL3g@z> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Eric S. Raymond spewed into the bitstream: ESR>Mark Galassi : ESR>> ESR>> Eric> The < http://sourceware.cygnus.com/docbook-tools/ > page ESR>> Eric> directs me to ESR>> Eric> < ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com:/pub/docbook-tools >. That ESR>> Eric> server is perpetually swamped. Going to one of the mirrors, ESR>> Eric> I find a docbook-3.1-5.noarch.rpm, but it does not contain ESR>> Eric> any of the db2* scripts referenced on the DocBook page. ESR>> Eric> Where are those scripts? ESR>> ESR>> There should be several RPMs on that ftp site. The scripts you seek ESR>> are in the stylesheets RPM. Also make sure you don't only get the ESR>> noarch RPMs. ESR> ESR>OK, what is the actual stylesheet RPM? You didn't specify, and all I ESR>can find is SRPMs and tarballs. ESR> ESR>Would it be too much to ask that these things actually be described ESR>on the DocBook tools page? ESR> ESR>Every time I go near SGML I get headaches... I started fooling with this stuff early last fall and I went through similiar travails. I captured what I did in a colophon for one of the documents I created in docbook/sgml. Maybe this will help: http://www.moongroup.com/docs/mailhelp-HOWTO/z632.html hth! -- Chuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMall.com csm@LinuxMall.com GnuPG Public Key Available: http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/