eggdbus calls xsltproc with -nonet: how is that supposed to work?

[Paul Beard]

In course of an expensive portmaster run to try and resolve some stubborn ports (telepathy-glib among them),  eggdbus kept failing. The command it choked on was an invocation of xsltproc with -nonet which as best I can tell requests a remote file without using the network. 

       --nonet
           Do not use the Internet to fetch DTDs, entities or documents.


gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/devel/eggdbus/work/eggdbus-0.6/docs/man'
/usr/local/bin/xsltproc -nonet http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl eggdbus-binding-tool.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"
cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
gmake[3]: *** [eggdbus-binding-tool.1] Error 4
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/eggdbus/work/eggdbus-0.6/docs/man'

Running it by hand, outside the build process, and then letting the build process pick up what it found ("oh, look, this is already done.") seemed to work.  

[root at shuttle /usr/ports/devel/eggdbus/work/eggdbus-0.6/docs/man]#  xsltproc -v -nonet http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl eggdbus-binding-tool.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"
cannot parse http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
[root at shuttle /usr/ports/devel/eggdbus/work/eggdbus-0.6/docs/man]#  xsltproc -v http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl eggdbus-binding-tool.xml 
creating dictionary for stylesheet
reusing dictionary from http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl for stylesheet
xsltParseStylesheetProcess : found stylesheet
exclude result prefix exsl
xsltPrecomputeStylesheet: removing ignorable blank node

telepathy-glib did get upgraded, partly due to some issues with vala, gio, gir, and friends not being up-to-date, even after repeated rebuilds. 

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Paul Beard

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