It's broken again


A new git (1.6.5.3) arrived and I thought I should create RPM’s for this again.

This turned out to be rather tedious and frustrating.

Running ~ rpmbuild -ba git.spec ~

as usual gave me this error

I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd
/home/tonk/rpmbuild/BUILD/git-1.6.5.2/Documentation/git-add.xml:2: warning:     \
failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"

Hmm, never seen that one before. Digging around in the Makefile and adding a lot of `echo`s to display some debugging info, I found it.

I recently upgraded to CentOS 5.4 and now it turns out that CentOS breaks things. In the file /etc/asciidoc/docbook.conf it says:

<!DOCTYPE {doctype-article?article}{doctype-book?book}{doctype-manpage?refentry} PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">

… and that’s wrong. There is no file for version 4.5. I didn’t feel like finding out how to repair all these packages and the dependency hell involved. I just didn’t have the stomach for it, right now (not at 01:30 AM).

So, no nice repairs, but I just changed the above line to:

<!DOCTYPE {doctype-article?article}{doctype-book?book}{doctype-manpage?refentry} PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">

(See the subtle difference between the two, 4.5 versus 4.2)

Now it all works, although I still do not know which package really breaks things.

If I ever find out I will let you know.

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