Re: [RFC] DocBook with .txt or .html versions?

[Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:41:05AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:42:40 +0200 Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> 
> > Is it really so superfluous to have a possibility of 
> > reading all docs from Documentation on a lean box
> > (e.g. server) without all those xml, flex etc.
> > printers' toys installed?
> 
> make help ==>
> 
> Documentation targets:
>   Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats:
>   xmldocs (XML DocBook), psdocs (Postscript), pdfdocs (PDF)
>   htmldocs (HTML), mandocs (man pages, use installmandocs to install)
>                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> and 'man 9 yield'
> works for me.
> 
> or are you saying that you want large *.txt book-like generated files
> instead of larger *.html etc?

I'm saying that I coudn't do it even on knoppix dvd version
(a year ago) and there are gazillions of desktop software
which I don't use.

I only need to read this in any readable form like
the rest of Documentation.

Regards,
Jarek P.

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Slackware_lean_box$ make mandocs

*** You need to install xmlto ***
make[1]: *** [Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.9] Error 1
make: *** [mandocs] Error 2

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http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/4/i386/xmlto-0.0.18-6.i386.html
Provides

    * xmlto 

Requires

    * /bin/bash
    * docbook-dtds
    * docbook-xsl
    * libc.so.6
    * libxslt >= 0.9.0
    * passivetex 

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/4/i386/passivetex-1.25-5.noarch.html
Provides

    * passivetex 

Requires

    * /bin/sh
    * /bin/sh
    * /bin/sh
    * tetex >= 3.0
    * xmltex >= 20000118-4 

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/4/i386/libxslt-1.1.14-2.i386.html
Provides

    * libxslt
    * libexslt.so.0
    * libxslt.so.1 

Requires

    * /bin/sh
    * /bin/sh
    * libc.so.6
    * libexslt.so.0
    * libgcrypt.so.11
    * libgpg-error.so.0
    * libm.so.6
    * libpthread.so.0
    * libxml2 >= 2.3.8
    * libxml2.so.2
    * libxslt.so.1
    * libz.so.1 

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/4/i386/docbook-dtds-1.0-26.noarch.html
Provides

    * docbook-dtds
    * docbook-dtd-sgml
    * docbook-dtd-xml
    * docbook-dtd30-sgml
    * docbook-dtd31-sgml
    * docbook-dtd40-sgml
    * docbook-dtd41-sgml
    * docbook-dtd412-xml
    * docbook-dtd42-sgml
    * docbook-dtd42-xml
    * docbook-dtd43-sgml
    * docbook-dtd43-xml
    * docbook-dtd44-sgml
    * docbook-dtd44-xml 

Requires

    * /bin/sh
    * /bin/sh
    * fileutils
    * grep
    * libxml2 >= 2.3.8
    * openjade = 1.3.2
    * perl >= 0:5.002
    * sgml-common >= 0.6.3-4
    * textutils
    * xml-common
    * xml-common 

etc, etc, etc...