Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Problem registering/viewing an omf

[Malcolm T. <ma...@co...>]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 09:43 +0200, C=C3=A9sar Mart=C3=ADnez Izquierdo wro=
te:
> Hello, I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, if it isn't=
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> please redirect me to a more proper list/forum.
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> I'm trying to use scrollkeeper to organize our documentation. I generat=
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> correct OMFs and install them with either scrollkeeper-update or=20
> scrollkeeper-install. Scrollkeeper says that the omf is correctly regis=
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> but then I'm unable to see the entry in Yelp or Kdehelpcenter.
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> Which step am I forgotting??

When you say "Scrollkeeper says that the omf is correctly registered" do
you mean that it shows up in the output of
'scrollkeeper-get-content-list C' (possibly replacing 'C' with your
current locale)? If it shows up there, then programs should be able to
see it.

If your document's meta-data doesn't show up in that list, it's possible
that you are being hit by a really dumb bug in scrollkeeper that is kind
of hard to fix in a backwards compatible way: the scrollkeeper database
is not always installed where it should be. Basically there were some
hard-coded paths that work on Solaris and *BSD systems but are not
correct on Linux. We fixed this in what turned out to be a somewhat
half-assed fashion and it is still broken. If we fix it completely
correctly it requires (a) changing the build script of every application
using scrollkeeper and (b) still having scrollkeeper look in the wrong
location for backwards-compatibility reasons.

So you could try running 'scrollkeeper-rebuilddb' (as root if you are
using the system installation of scrollkeeper, since it needs to write
to /var/lib/scrollkeeper/*, etc) and see if that fixes things (again,
the scrollkeer-get-content-list test is the litmus test).

If neither of those suggestions work, could you post the Makefile
fragments you are using to install your documents or any other pertinent
information and I'll try to debug it a bit further. At the moment, I
don't really have a clue.

Cheers,
Malcolm