From f38e192ae26e863305d644a6bf2a0649d235436a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giuseppe Bilotta Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:43:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Report issue with strange feed removal --- ...eds_get_removed_in_strange_conditions.mdwn | 57 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/feeds_get_removed_in_strange_conditions.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/feeds_get_removed_in_strange_conditions.mdwn b/doc/bugs/feeds_get_removed_in_strange_conditions.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..deec208ba --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/feeds_get_removed_in_strange_conditions.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +For some time now, in circumstances that I've had enormous troubles +trying to track, I've seen feeds getting removed by ikiwiki when +apparently unrelated pages got changed, with the message: + +> removing somepath/somepage/somefeed, no longer built by some/unrelated/page + +I've finally been able to find how and why it happens. The situation is +the following: + +* page A has an inline directive that (directly) generates a feed F +* page B inlines A, thus (indirectly) generating F again +* page B is rendered after page A + +The feed removal happens when changes are made to prevent B from +inlining A; for example, because B is a tag page and A is untagged B, or +because B includes A through a pagespec that no longer matches A. In +this case, this happens: + +* page A is built, rendering F +* page B is built, _not_ rendering F, which it used to render +* F is removed because it is not built by B anymore + +Note that although this issue is triggered (for me) from the changes I +proposed last year to allow feed generation from nested inlines +coalescing it to be page-based instead of destpage-based +(bb8f76a4a04686def8cc6f21bcca80cb2cc3b2c9 and +72c8f01b36c841b0e83a2ad7ad1365b9116075c5) there is potential for it +popping up in other cases. + +Specifically, the logic for the removal of dependent pages currently +relies on the assumption that each output has a single generator. My +changes caused this assumption to be violated, hence the error, but +other cases may pop up for other plugins in the future. + +I have a [patch] fixing this issue (for feeds specifically, i.e. only +the problem I am actually having) on top of my `mystuff` branch, but +since that also has heaps of other unrelated stuff, you may want to just +[pick it from my gitweb][gw]. + +[gw]: (http://git.oblomov.eu/ikiwiki/patch/671cb26cf50643827f258270d9ac8ad0b1388a65) + +The patch changes the `will_render()` for feeds to be based on the page +rather than on the destpage, matching the fact that for nested inlines +it's the inner page that is ultimately responsible for generating the +feed. + +I've noticed that it requires at least _two_ full rebuilds before the +index is again in a sensible state. (On the first rebuild, all feeds +from nested inlines are actually _removed_.) + +While the patch is needed because there are legitimate cases in which +nested feeds are needed (for example, I have an index page that inlines +index pages for subsection of my site, and I want _those_ feed from +being visible), there are other cases when one may want to skip feed +generation from nested inlines. + +--[[GiuseppeBilotta]] -- 2.26.2