Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Use DocBook XSL stylesheets for man page building This switches

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Use DocBook XSL stylesheets for man page building
>
> So, continuing with this seemingly endless saga :-(
>
> I'm working on fixing the script that generates the snapshots.  I have
> fixed the script so that it works on my machine, but Stefan reports that
> it fails on developer.postgresql.org with:
>
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/inline.xsl:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not
found
> HTTP/1.1 504 Gateway Time-out
> ^
> compilation error: file http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl line 36 element
include
> xsl:include : unable to load http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/inline.xsl
> gmake[3]: *** [man-stamp] Error 5
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/pgsql/snapshot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml'
> gmake[2]: *** [man] Error 2
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/pgsql/snapshot/pgsql/doc/src'
> gmake[1]: *** [man] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/pgsql/snapshot/pgsql/doc'
> gmake: *** [man] Error 2
>
>
> His complaint is that we're now depending on a random website to be up
> and reachable to generate the manpages :-(  Is there a way we can have
> the necessary stylesheets locally?

yeah . having the doc builds depend on the availabilty of some random
external website is fairly problematic and feels really wrong(and not an
improvement in general at all)



Stefan