Re: scrollkeepr problems

[Chris Lyttle <chris wilddev net>]

Thanks, Dan

This was the trick I needed, changing the path in scrollkeeper.conf to
/gnome/head/INSTALL/share/omf and running scrollkeeper-rebuilddb
registered all the docs properly, now I can get down to fixing all the
rest of the OMF files this weekend.

Chris

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 21:03, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> My guess is that your valid OMF files are in a path that isn't listed in 
> /etc/scrollkeeper.conf, while your invalid OMF files are in the paths in 
> /etc/scrollkeeper.conf.  Try editing the list of paths in 
> /etc/scrollkeeper.conf to include the paths for your GNOME2 installation, 
> and then run 'scrollkeeper-rebuilddb'.
> 
> Note that 'scrollkeeper-rebuilddb' and 'scrollkeeper-update' will 
> generally search the paths in the conf file, and not the working 
> directory.  You can change this with command-line flags however.
> 
> Also, the paths listed in scrollkeeper.conf can be determined at build 
> time.  If you are using Garnome, for example, you might want to make sure 
> it is setting these paths to be appropriate for its install directory.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> On 20 May 2002, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> 
> > Well I finally managed to make sure my xml stuff was setup correctly,
> > fired up the nice new yelp from cvs only to discover it listed no docs
> > apart from 'Writing scrollkeeper omf files' and man and info pages.
> > Curious as to why this should be I thought that possibly SK needed to
> > update it's db and couldn't because it was owned by root.
> > So I went into the build directory (for gnome-games which is what I've
> > been trying to get working) and ran scrollkeeper-update which I
> > understood would scan all the directories below this for omf files to
> > install.It came back with a bunch of error's basically saying that the
> > OMF files weren't valid  I was pretty sure they were as I'd followed the
> > guidelines on the SK site to set them up, but I used xmllint to check
> > them anyway against the sk dtd. there were no errors. I poked around for
> > a bit more then came across the scrollkeeper-install test on the SK
> > site. I tried this and it worked perfectly. So I tried running
> > scrollkeeper-install as root to install the files, they worked and this
> > doc now shows up in Yelp properly.
> > I think all this means that the command we are using in omf.make
> > (scrollkeeper-update) doesn't work and this is why docs aren't getting
> > registered.
> > 
> > Comments?
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > 
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