Re: [docs] Docs build/workers need inkscape?

[Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>]

Hi Richard,

On 10/12/24 11:19 AM, Richard Purdie via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We've seeing docs build failures:
> 
> https://valkyrie.yoctoproject.org//#/builders/34/builds/6
> 
> The issue is that inkscape isn't installed on the workers and isn't in
> the docs buildtools tarball either.
> 
> I'm reluctant to start requiring installing inkscape on all autobuilder
> workers as we try and keep the packages installed minimal for the other
> builds.
> 
> I'm wondering if we should just pre-generate those png files alongside
> the svg sources? I can send a patch doing that...
> 

This will necessarily mean we'll forget to update one or the other :/ 
It's bound to happen.

librsvg is Rust-based IIRC, so that adds up A LOT of build time to 
generate the buildtools tarball.

For my company's user manual, we use rsvg-convert (which seems to be 
coming from librsvg :) ).

Cheers,
Quentin