Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-30 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:25:00PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote: > ROTFL, why should I change dhelp to support a broken file format? ... > dhelp supports all formats. ... These statements contradict each other. -- Raul

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:25:00PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote: > > Please tell me what for do we need doc-base? To piss off people like you of course. Shaking my head in despair. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Marco" == Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marco> the libc maintainer closed such a bug report without adding Marco> support for these programs. This is not a good sign for Marco> Debian#s quality. glibc-doc_2.1.2-4 uses doc-base. Ciao, Martin

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:25:00PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote: > ROTFL, why should I change dhelp to support a broken file format? How is the doc-base file format broken? > Please tell me what for do we need doc-base? It's a useful abstraction over specific documentation systems. > In fact the f

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Ruud de Rooij
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Budde) writes: > Am 28.09.99 schrieb roland # spinnaker.de ... > RR> > installation process? There#re two better solutions: 1) All programs use > RR> > the same file format. > RR> Okay, simply change dhelp to use the doc-base directly and were are done. > > ROTFL, why sh

Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Marco Budde
Am 28.09.99 schrieb roland # spinnaker.de ... Moin Roland! RR> > installation process? There#re two better solutions: 1) All programs use RR> > the same file format. RR> Okay, simply change dhelp to use the doc-base directly and were are done. ROTFL, why should I change dhelp to support a broken

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:23:22PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Then we'll have to agree where we register docs. I have the > following directories on a fresh potato system (with few packages): > > /usr/share/doc/HTML/ > /usr/doc/HTML/ > > And they are _not_ symlinks. They get created by d

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Marco" == Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marco, please show a little common sense. You are beating a dead horse. Marco> localhost/doc/ should point to /usr/share/doc. Please submit a Marco> bug report for your http daemon. The decision was made by the ctte, it is not yet implemented

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ruud de Rooij wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Budde) writes: > > > PSG> I could see http://localhost/doc/HTML/, but all new docs visible > > PSG> as file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html could not be seen under > > PSG> the http://localhost interface to dhelp. Is `fhs' supposed to be > > PSG> a

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Marco Budde wrote: > PSG> I have a recent potato install and dhelp 0.3.14 and _don't_ have > PSG> http://localhost/fhs/ support. > > I don#t have it, too :). Is this directory a Debian standard, Roland? It isn't. > PSG> I could see http://localhost/doc/HTML/, but all new docs visible > PSG> a

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Ruud de Rooij
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Budde) writes: > PSG> I could see http://localhost/doc/HTML/, but all new docs visible > PSG> as file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html could not be seen under > PSG> the http://localhost interface to dhelp. Is `fhs' supposed to be > PSG> a new Alias? > > localhost/doc/ sho

Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Marco Budde
Am 27.09.99 schrieb GalbraithP # dfo-mpo.gc.ca ... Moin Peter! PSG> I have a recent potato install and dhelp 0.3.14 and _don't_ have PSG> http://localhost/fhs/ support. I don#t have it, too :). Is this directory a Debian standard, Roland? PSG> I could see http://localhost/doc/HTML/, but all new

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 06:56:00PM +0100, Marco Budde wrote: > RR> I just installed it, but as far as I can see this doesn't integrate > RR> FHS and FSSTND > > Right, because this is not possible. Counter-example: ( dump() { lynx -dump -source -width=1000 $1 |

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Marco" == Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Am 25.09.99 schrieb roland # spinnaker.de ... RR> It is always a good idea to use a generic format which can RR> automatically converted to all useful formats instead of using one RR> special format. Marco> No, sorry, but this is wrong. W

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Joey Hess
Marco Budde wrote: > No. A http daemon will never follow this symlinks. They#re 100% useless > when using the http protocol. Balderdash. http://www.apache.org/docs-1.2/mod/core.html#options FollowSymLinks The server will follow symbolic links in this directory. Note: even though th

Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Marco Budde
Am 25.09.99 schrieb roland # spinnaker.de ... Moin Roland! RR> > Why? What is the advantage of using doc-base? RR> It is always a good idea to use a generic format which can RR> automatically converted to all useful formats instead of using one RR> special format. No, sorry, but this is wrong. W

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-25 Thread Ruud de Rooij
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Budde) writes: > Am 24.09.99 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... > > Moin Joey! > > JH> > dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for > JH> > dwww and dhelp. Thous it is a superset and should be used, no? > > I would recommend using dwww and dhelp dir

Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-25 Thread Marco Budde
Am 24.09.99 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ... Moin Joey! JH> > dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for JH> > dwww and dhelp. Thous it is a superset and should be used, no? I would recommend using dwww and dhelp directly. dhelp#s parser is written in C and uses a databa