[RFC] Packaging technology update

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 01:07:24 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 15:14 -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote:
> As part of getting the RPM's built for the Fedora documents,  there
> are a number of files necessarily that all must be consistent.  For
> example, there is a revision history within the DocBook document
> itself and a similar one for the RPM package.  There is an author /
> editor / translator list for the DocBook information and a similar
> list for the RPM.  The list goes on, but you get the idea.
> 
> Since I'm lazy and don't want to do the same task twice, I've
> developed some XSLT stylesheets that will generate:
[... a bunch of really cool stuff snipped ...]

Very cool!  Still looking over all of this, but I think one of the best
things about this (besides all the general coolness) is that it keeps
everything in the authoritative DocBook XML.  This is a big step in the
right direction.

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