"Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> [ Sorry for the crossposting, but this is something that affects both pkgsrc
> and htdocs. ]
>
> Some weeks ago I commited the following to the docbook-xml package:
>
> revision 1.27
> date: 2006/04/01 14:43:42;  author: jmmv;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -2
> Add appropriate rewriteSystem entries to the catalog so that system-style
> queries (URLs) work.  This removes several warnings when, e.g., registering
> some documents in the scrollkeeper database.  Bump PKGREVISION to 4.
>
> As noted by adrianp@, this change breaks the build of htdocs, which uses
> docbook-simple.  The problem is that both DTDs have the same prefix:
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/...
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/simple/1.1/...
>
> And when these get rewritten, they point to (respectively):
>
> /usr/pkg/share/xml/docbook/4.2/...
> /usr/pkg/share/xml/docbook/simple/1.1/...
>
> The problem is that docbook-simple is not installed in that directory; it
> currently lives under share/xml/docbook-simple.
>
> I see two possible solutions:
>
> Change the docbook-simple package so that it gets installed as
> share/xml/docbook/simple/1.1.  This way, the rewriteSystem entry works
> fine and we mimic the layout given by the URLs.  (I have implemented
> this currently.)
>
> Refix the docbook-xml package so that the rewriteSystem entry is more
> specific.  Instead of saying that the prefix is just
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/, I'd change it to be
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/<version>.  This way it wouldn't
> affect other packages.
>
> Or we can do both so that we have the same directory layout as the
> URLs and we avoid rewrite collisions.
>
> Any comments?  I think I prefer the latter solution.

I agree.
Did you changes went to pkgsrc-2006Q1 ?

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