Re: Issues building docs on an offline box again.

From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Feb 24, 2009, 02:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20090224022856.GN4371@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <c115fd3c0902231507k46da3294yf2726a92cb0fbc1a@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:07:54PM -0500, Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:

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> xmlto -m callouts.xsl man git-add.xml
> I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
> warning: failed to load external entity
> "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"
> compilation error: file /tmp/xmlto-xsl.f254nC line 4 element import
> xsl:import : unable to load
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
> make: *** [git-add.1] Error 1
> 
> Strange thing is that I thought I had gotten these to build offline
> before with the exact same configuration.  Any thoughts?

Probably you somehow broke your docbook toolchain.

> My current solution is to build them on the online box and then copy
> them over the sneaker net to the offline box.  But, this is kludgey,
> so not cool. :)

That's just a workaround. The solution is to have the correct mappings under /etc/xml, so that it maps the doctype to /usr/share/xml/docbook/manpages/docbook.xsl, or a similar path. After all, ideally your distro does this for you automatically. :)