Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 7 Aug 2017 14:27:33 -0600 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scripts/sphinx-pre-install: add minimum support for RHEL |
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:09:24 -0300 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote:
> RHEL 7.x and clone distros are shipped with Sphinx 1.1.x, > with is incompatible with Kernel ReST markups. > > So, on those systems, the only alternative is to install > it via a Python virtual environment. > > While seeking for "pip" on CentOS 7.3, I noticed that it > is not really needed, as python-virtualenv has its version > packaged there already. So, remove this from the list of > requirements for all distributions. > > With regards to PDF, twe need at least texlive-tabulary > extension, but that is not shipped there (at least on > CentOS). So, disable PDF packages as a hole. > > Please notice, however, that texlive + amsmath is needed for > ReST to properly handle ReST ".. math::" tags. Yet, Sphinx > fall back to display the LaTeX math expressions as-is, if > such extension is not available. > > So, let's just disable all texlive packages as a hole.
I've applied this, finally. Couldn't resist the temptation to fix "as a whole" while I was at it :)
Thanks,
jon
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