Problem on package installation

[Tim Niemueller]

Hi there.

Finally I found the time to upgrade my FC1 box to FC2t3 (I should 
mention that this has been a RH8 box with Ximian and RH 9 before) via 
"apt-get dist-upgrade". This worked pretty good until some Gnome 
packages where about to be installed:

On some packages I got error message about missing DTD for some help 
files as it seemed that oasis-open.org has been done (or maybe still 
is). The installation took awfully long then since it was waiting for 
the timeout on each file. I ended up in adding www.oasis-open.org to my 
hosts file to point to a local webserver with an immediate 404...

An example error message looks like:

error : Unknown IO error
/usr/share/gnome/help/gedit/zh_TW/gedit.xml:9: I/O warning : failed to 
load external entity 
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
]>
   ^
/usr/share/gnome/help/gedit/zh_TW/gedit.xml:908: parser error : Entity 
'tilde' not defined

The first lines appear once per file. The latter line once per entity in 
that file -> very often. It clutters the screen and takes a loot of time.

The packages I know of that have this problem (the installation ran 
unattended and I did not see all packages) are:

gnome-media (very long)
gnome-applets (also very long)
gedit
file-roller

I looked at the gedit spec and I assume the scrollkeeper is causing the 
problems here...

First I thought this should be done at compile time but as it seems this 
updates the search database and the like? Maybe then it would be a good 
idea to install a local copy of the DTDs needed to avoid such problems.

	Tim

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