Re: groff .ft command use in asciidoc

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote:

> > RHEL5 has asciidoc8, but docbook-xsl 1.69, which means it still needs
> > ASCIIDOC_ROFF enabled. RHEL6 is just out last week. So we are
> > technically breaking at least RHEL5 people (along with anybody with
> > ancient systems) until they tweak their knobs.
> 
> Once I imported the DocBook XML XSL 4.5 files into my local cache it
> seemed to make the man pages just fine on my RHEL5 machine even with the
> posted patch applied.
> 
> [root@host ~]# rpm -qi asciidoc
> Name        : asciidoc                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 8.6.3                             Vendor: Dag Apt Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
> Release     : 1.el5.rf                      Build Date: Thu 18 Nov 2010 08:35:22 AM EST
> ...
> [root@host ~]# rpm -qi docbook-utils
> Name        : docbook-utils                Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 0.6.14                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 5.1                           Build Date: Wed 12 Jul 2006 03:55:00 AM EDT
> 
> I didn't inspect each and every one for errors, but I didn't see any
> problems in the ones I did look at.

I think the updated XSL files are what's making it work. The stock
docbook xsl files are:

  $ yum list | grep docbook-style-xsl
  docbook-style-xsl.noarch   1.69.1-5.1 rhel-x86_64-server-5

and I don't know that we can assume anyone has updated them. However, I
don't actually build git on my RHEL machines, so I could might be wrong.

All that being said, I am willing to accept RHEL5 as collateral damage
if the new defaults Just Work for the majority of other platforms.

-Peff