[lsst-dm-stack-users] Some notes about eups manual on LSST

[Robert Lupton the Good]

Dear Fabrice,

you make two points here -- let's address both!

> 1. The LSST manual page relative to eups installation
> (https://dev.lsstcorp.org/trac/wiki/EupsManual#SECTION00040000000000000000) needs to be updated. Indeed it points to an obsolete tar.gz version and code repository. Robert Lupton The Good gave the correct informations about these pointer in his answer to ticket 3052 https://dev.lsstcorp.org/trac/ticket/3052

Robyn, can you fix this?

> 2. Furthermore it seems eups build depends on next packages :
> sudo apt-get install texlive-binaries texlive-latex-base 
> It would be good to make these dependencies optional so that no root access are required to build and install eups. For example the documentation could be made also available in markdown or rst (sphinx source) format ?

I'm a bit surprised that the installation fails if you don't have pdflatex in your path [although I agree that you won't get a copy of the manual].  OK, I just checked, and make returns 0 even if latex/pdflatex/latex2html are unavailable.

I haven't looked at whether there's an latex2rst converter (or whether it'd be trivial to write one).  An alternative would be to check the .pdf and .html versions into git, although I'm not generally in favour of checking in generated files.  We should certainly do this for install tarballs.

						R

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