Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751909AbdGWWId (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:08:33 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:60486 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751771AbdGWWIb (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:08:31 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:08:29 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Add a script to check for Sphinx install requirements Message-ID: <20170723160829.082853c6@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 569 Lines: 18 On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:46:34 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Sphinx installation is not trivial, as not all versions are supported, > and it requires a lot of stuff for math, images and PDF/LaTeX output > to work. > > So, add a script that checks if everything is fine, providing > distro-specific hints about what's needed for it to work. I've applied these (including the Mageia one), thanks. It occurs to me that adding CentOS would be easy, just treat it like an RHEL system. Maybe I'll give that a shot in a bit. Thanks, jon