Bug 317961

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #159382 +++

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Description of problem:
The various DocBook DTDs set a NAMELEN constant that is too short for many
purposes It is 44 now since years, and it should be set to a higher value; such
as 256.

If you grep NAMELEN `find /usr/share/sgml -name "*"` and change all "44" to
something larger it will fix the problem. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
docbook-dtds-1.0-25

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try using a name field larger than 44 in an sgml file.
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Additional info:

-- Additional comment from devrim on 2005-06-02 05:33 EST --
There is also another bug info for RH 7.1, reported by Havoc Pennington:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36058

-- Additional comment from twaugh on 2005-06-02 09:07 EST --
Fixed in Fedora development, and so the next full release of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux will pick up the change.  I don't think this problem warrants an updated
package.

-- Additional comment from devrim on 2005-06-02 09:14 EST --
There are many apps around that is experiencing problems with the NAMELEN issue,
like Slony-I: http://www.slony.info.

It's really not hard to keep it up with Fedora Core, but playing with RHEL is
not nice. As an RPM developer, I manually bump up the NAMELEN values, but I
don't think that all users can do this.

BTW, are you planinng a backpatch to FC 3?


-- Additional comment from devrim on 2005-06-02 09:15 EST --
(In reply to comment #2)
> Fixed in Fedora development, and so the next full release of Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux will pick up the change.  I don't think this problem warrants an updated
> package.

There are many apps around that is experiencing problems with the NAMELEN issue,
like Slony-I: http://www.slony.info.

It's really not hard to keep it up with Fedora Core, but playing with RHEL is
not nice. As an RPM developer, I manually bump up the NAMELEN values, but I
don't think that all users can do this.

So, we *really* need an updated package. This *bug* exists since 7.1, so we
deserve an update.

BTW, are you planinng a backpatch to FC 3?

-- Additional comment from bod on 2005-10-12 22:09 EST --
The 1.0-27 package still has "NAMELEN 44".  You need to change the regex used in
the substitution (sed doesn't match WS with \s).  Something like this works:

  # Increase NAMELEN (bug #36058, bug #159382).
  sed -e's,\(NAMELEN[ \t]\+\)44\>$,\1256,' -i.namelen */docbook.dcl

-- Additional comment from bod on 2005-10-12 22:12 EST --
Ooop, drop the '$'...

-- Additional comment from twaugh on 2005-10-13 04:32 EST --
Sed certainly does match WS with \s -- and you are right that the $ was causing
the problem.  There is whitespace at the end of the line in the original file(!).

Thanks, fixed.

-- Additional comment from botsch.edu on 2007-10-03 15:06 EST --
Hi, guys. Stuff such as slony can't be built on rhel4 due to this issue. Please
fix in RHEL4. Thanks.