https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/43626 https://bugs.gentoo.org/981868 From 40d1acd6d9293915e0f1e69c5e5ecac086fdcb38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luca Boccassi Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 20:32:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] tools: fix building manpages with lxml 6.1.3 manpages build fails on Arch with new lxml: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/work/src/tools/make-directive-index.py", line 169, in make_page _extract_directives(directive_groups, formatting, page) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/work/src/tools/make-directive-index.py", line 18, in _extract_directives t = xml_parse(page) File "/work/src/tools/xml_helper.py", line 25, in xml_parse doc = tree.parse(page, _parser) File "src/lxml/etree.pyx", line 3717, in lxml.etree.parse File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 2045, in lxml.etree._parseDocument File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 2071, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1962, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1231, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 647, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 765, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 689, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError File "../src/man/hostname.xml", line 5 lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Entity 'entities' not defined, line 5, column 11 The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/work/src/tools/make-directive-index.py", line 180, in _xml = make_page(_template_path, _xml_files) File "/work/src/tools/make-directive-index.py", line 171, in make_page raise ValueError('failed to process ' + page) from e ValueError: failed to process ../src/man/hostname.xml Relying on XMLParser() defaults leaves the external parameter entity used to load custom-entities.ent unresolved. Request entity resolution explicitly. Follow-up for 1a13e31d275430ffba713c8a68ee7f22093c29e0 --- tools/xml_helper.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/xml_helper.py b/tools/xml_helper.py index 87c24ab02a0f..e26ca92d9454 100755 --- a/tools/xml_helper.py +++ b/tools/xml_helper.py @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def resolve(self, url, _id, context): return None -_parser = tree.XMLParser() +_parser = tree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=True) # pylint: disable=no-member _parser.resolvers.add(CustomResolver())