Re: Issues building docs on an offline box again.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:07:54PM -0500, Tim Visher [off-list ref] wrote:

xmlto -m callouts.xsl man git-add.xml
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
warning: failed to load external entity
"http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"
compilation error: file /tmp/xmlto-xsl.f254nC line 4 element import
xsl:import : unable to load
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
make: *** [git-add.1] Error 1

Strange thing is that I thought I had gotten these to build offline
before with the exact same configuration.  Any thoughts?

Probably you somehow broke your docbook toolchain.

My current solution is to build them on the online box and then copy
them over the sneaker net to the offline box.  But, this is kludgey,
so not cool. :)

That's just a workaround. The solution is to have the correct mappings
under /etc/xml, so that it maps the doctype to
/usr/share/xml/docbook/manpages/docbook.xsl, or a similar path. After
all, ideally your distro does this for you automatically. :)