Bug 31155 – Emerge scrollkeeper failed complaining of missing docbook-dtd412-xml which is handled by the app-text/docbook-xml-dtd ebuild

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Dan Sketcher 2003-10-14 15:09:19 UTC]

So, when attempting the emerge of app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.12 the build failed
because of a missing dependency that should have been provided by
app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r4 (both current versions in x86 at time of
writing). docbook-xml-dtd is a listed dependency of scrollkeeper.

It would seem that he emerge of docbook-xml-dtd is broken, as it did not
populate the /etc/xml/catalog file. As per the given URL of the forum
discussion, this could be 'fixed' by overwriting the empty /etc/xml/catalog with
 /etc/xml/docbook. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Once the /etc/xml/catalog file was replaced, the scrollkeeper emerge was fixed.
However, i can no longer replicate the errors from the end of the
docbook-xml-dtd emerge.

[Comment 1 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-10-14 19:04:02 UTC]

were you using GRP ? was /etx/xml/catalog an _completely_ blank file before
? the libxml2 included in the 1.4 GRP had this bug, where libxml2 didnt create
the catalog in /etc/xml/catalog so some other package could try to write
to a non-existent catalog, but that's been fixed in portage and GRP versions
after that. 

the docbook-xml-dtd ebuild is not broken, it adds to the catalog if it exists,
(take a look in pkg_postinst), and it populates /etc/xml/catalog fine for
me. if anything it was another package at fault, but as you've fixed it we
cant look into it some more.

copying docbook->catalog is neither an option, nor a solution. docbook isnt
the only thing that uses xml/catalogs.

[Comment 2 Dan Sketcher 2003-10-14 20:56:35 UTC]

Yes I did use GRP, but not for Gnome. I don't know if libxml2 installed during
my setup but I can only assume so.

/etc/xml/catalog contained only a line break. When I retried emerging (a
few times) docbook-xml-dtd it did not add content to the file. 

Seeing as i have now copied docbook to catalog should I delete catalog and
reemerge libxml2?

Thanks for having a look at this.

[Comment 3 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-10-14 21:12:39 UTC]

Yep, the empty /etc/xml/catalog is the GRP problem. The best solution is
to rm /etc/xml/catalog, and then emerge libxml2 docbook-xml-dtd docbook-xsl-stylesheets.
That should create a valid catalog, then add the dtd and xsl entries, so
give that a try.

[Comment 4 Dan Sketcher 2003-10-15 03:48:06 UTC]

Yep, I did as you suggested, and then tried emerge scrollkeeper and it was
all good.

Thanks for your help Mike.

[Comment 5 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-10-15 04:42:47 UTC]

No problem, should be fixed in new GRP.