Re: [Refdb-devel] refdb-elisp

[David N. <dav...@sw...>]

Hi Markus,

>I suspected there is some automatism for this. I don't know whether it
>makes things more complicated, but I've changed Makefile.am to install
>refdb-mode-config.el as a configuration file in sysconfdir (usually
>/etc or /usr/local/etc). This is probably the most logical place as it
>now contains the locations of the viewing programs. If the Debian
>policy allows this, you could simply create a symlink in
>/etc/emacs/site-start.d pointing to that file.
>
>  
>

Not sure about the policy, but I did it anyway.  With the new package 
you will see it initially installs the startup file as a regular file.  
In post-processing this file is deleted and re-created as a symlink to 
/etc/refdb-mode-manual.el.

The package is now built from cvs source rather than the downloadable 
archive.  The main difference this causes is in the html manual.  Rather 
than the single page html file included in the archive, the html help 
files built from cvs are modular.  This makes for a rather messy 
document directory (/usr/share/doc/refdb-elisp) as the html files are 
mixed in with the AUTHOR, NEWS, changelog, pdf help and other document 
files.  It would be nicer if the html files were collected in their own 
subdirectory but it's not a major problem, especially since the html 
help index file and help pdf file are directly linked from the Debian 
documentation system (e.g. dwww).

I'll send the updated deb off list.

Regards,
David.