discuss: Automatically building the HOWTOs
Subject:
Re: Automatically building the HOWTOs
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
3 Sep 2001 18:08:11 -0000
Message-Id: <20010903190638.A6438@arborlon.riva.ucam.org>
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:31:20PM -0400, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> On Sep 3, 1:57am, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I've come to the conclusion that I'd be better off not trying to roll my
> > own build process, and would like to use exactly the same one you use to
> > build the nightly tarballs so that the output is identical (and so
> > easily diffable etc.). However, although I can find several suggestions
> > for ways I *can* build DocBook, I can't find the exact process used at
> > linuxdoc.org.
> >
> > Can someone please give me a reference to the nightly cron script, if
> > it's available publicly? I'm happy to grovel through CVS and so on, of
> > course.
>
> There isn't one. The HOWTOs are published "real-time", as they come
> in, by a script I have that can handle all the different source formats
> accepted by the LDP. You can certainly wrap that existing script as a
> nightly cron job.
OK. That's ldp_mk, then? For the meantime I'll just use the tarballs.
Thanks for the advice,
--
Colin Watson ####@####.####
