I have had a lot's of problems building xmlto and packages that depend on it while creating a stage3. Normally these problems do not manifest on a live system because required but unspecified dependencies have already been merged once xmlto and it's dependencies, and build-docbook-catalog are installed. 1. xmlto does depend on sys-apps/which 2. build-docbook-catalog does depend on || ( sys-apps/util-linux app-misc/getopt ) Another problem is that build-docbook-catalog will fail if /etc/xml does not exist. Some of the packages (all?) that call build-docbook-catalog during pkg_postinst do not previously create /etc/xml. To make things worse non of these ebuilds die if build-docbook-catalog fails. Could you please: 1. Add above dependencies 2. Make sure that all packages that call build-docbook-catalog first merge /etc/xml 3. Add ||die after all calls to build-docbook-catalog in all ebuilds. (If that had been done previously these bugs would have shown up earlier I think). Possibly other dependencies of xmlto have missing dependencies too, wouldn't surprise me much (no bad feelings - just saying it might be good to check). Reproducible: Always
Bug wranglers: I've fixed build-docbook-catalog deps and xmlto deps (getopt and which) so this is now partly solved (Thanks Jonas)
I've dropped "keepdir /etc/xml" to build-docbook-catalog's ebuild which should solve issue 2. So we are only missing || die's from end of build-docbook-catalog's in multiple different ebuild(s) around tree, right? Changed summary to reflect the situation.
I'm not sure if it's safe to add these dies.. since build-docbook-catalog does Found DocBook XSL stylesheets (xsl) in /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets Found DocBook XSL stylesheets (xsl-ns) in /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-ns-stylesheets DocBook XSL stylesheets (xsl-saxon) not found DocBook XSL stylesheets (xsl-xalan) not found see the "not found"'s and they vary on different systems, what code (0, 1?) does the command return in these cases? i guess you could check by "echo $?" after the command (should return the code) just thinking out loud
Since 1. and 2. are solved I don't think 3. is so important anymore (see prev. comment) Please report if you have more issues wrt docbook / xml deps
