khelpcenter isn't only a kde manual, should be a frontend for man, but htdig is required to rebuild index..... This ebuild adds index_man flag with this dependancy on, or it will be much less useful.
Created attachment 78445 [details] khelpcenter-3.5.0 ebuild with index_man flag
In addition, it should also compile kdebase-kioslaves otherwise khelpcenter cannot parse man:/ or info:/ filetypes. I recommend making this a dependency as well.
Created attachment 79140 [details] khelpcenter-3.5.1 ebuild with index_man flag Updated for 3.5.1 and added kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves dependancy fo index_man flag as well. For who's swearing why this is so nice.... with khelpcenter I can use ctrl+F on man pages and can select (for copy with control+C) more than one man page at once...
I had been getting errors when creating search indexes for Application Manuals: > INDEXDIR: /home/peter/.kde3.5/share/apps/khelpcenter/index/ > FINDCMD: find /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML/en/ -name index.docbook > Creating index for 'kde_application_manuals' > Warning: unknown locale! > > New server: home, 80 > Unknown host: home > 0:0:0:file://home/peter/.kde3.5/share/apps/khelpcenter/index/kde_application_manuals.tmp/index.html: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ size = 9403 > htdig: Run complete > htdig: 1 server seen: > htdig: home:80 1 document > htmerge: Document database has no URLs. Check your config file and try running htdig again. > > htmerge failed Matteo did some research and uncovered a bug report which did not seem related: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2691&style=flat&viewday=3&viewmonth=200204 However, on upgrading to htdig 3.2.0_beta-6, kdehelpcenter was able to correctly compute and build indexes. I might suggest adding >=www-misc/htdig-3.2.0 as a Depend (even though it's marked testing right now) since indexes can't be built with htdig-3.1.6. But, then again, kde 3.5.x is still marked testing. Thanks Matteo for the excellent find.
Created attachment 79285 [details] khelpcenter-3.5.1.ebuild with better dependancy for index_man flag Thank you but the merit is of google. However, the hard part would be that kde goes stable faster tham htdig. This however should not be an issue since htdig dependancy would be only for index_man flag. Updated ebuild dependancy.
There is another issue with htdig as detailed in #28049. A few hardcoded paths in /usr/kde/3.5/bin/khc*.pl need to be changed: - khc_htsearch.pl: my $htsearchpath="/usr/bin/htsearch"; - khc_htdig.pl and khc_docbookdig.pl: my $htdigdata = "/var/lib/htdig/db"; my $htdigbin = "/usr/bin"; Also note that khelpcenter should depend on >=www-misc/htdig-3.2.0_beta6-r1
Created attachment 85971 [details, diff] khelpcenter-htdig.diff Patch for the purposed changes. Should be applied at kde-base as well (when releasing another patch set....). Apply just after cd ${S} (inside kdebase-3.5.2 directory).
Created attachment 85972 [details] khelpcenter-3.5.2-r1.ebuild new ebuild with both index_man flag and the patch (the patch will be applied even if the flag is unset, as it doesn't seems to touch anything else than htdig functions....)
P.S.: I got this error : "htdig: Errors to take note of: Unknown host or unable to contact server: help://kregexpeditor/index.docbook Ref: file:///home/matte/.kde3.5/share/apps/khelpcenter/index/kde_application_manuals.tmp/index.html"
The file /usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML/en/KRegExpEditor/index.docbook seems to be there, the issue might be the Capital letter of KRegExpEditor (instead of kregexpeditor)?
Doing a "mv KRegExpEditor kregexpeditor" inside "/usr/kde/3.5/share/doc/HTML/en" worked. However it seems to have added just kde apps manuals and just "en language" (my system has both en and it).....
*** Bug 147788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
well, couldnt you make htdig a USEflag for kdebase? that would give as the choice of either emerging this or not. thx!
Fixed in 3.5.7. (In reply to comment #13) > well, couldnt you make htdig a USEflag for kdebase? that would give as the > choice of either emerging this or not. No; working KDE help is not really optional, sorry.
