From 966454145267472c18f2537b639bcd1373c8d264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkickHAzX_uVJMd_vFJjae6SLs2G38URPU" Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 07:57:18 -0400 Subject: bug? - Album plugin makes all pages in site interdependent --- doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/plugins/contrib') diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn index 8e5c5b5a7..4db06d853 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn @@ -593,3 +593,38 @@ What would be good is if the album directive could have a "show" parameter which > An optional `show` parameter would be a possible enhancement beyond that, > although I don't know how useful it would be; if it isn't passed, the > default should be 0 (unlimited). --[[smcv]] + +---- + +## bug?: all albums and pages become interdependent +*(ikiwiki master branch 2014-06-06 and smcv album4 branch)* + +On a site with the following structure where all album$n.mdwn files have the ``[[!album]]`` directive set. All albums and albumviewers get rebuilt whenever any one of the pages is touched and the command ``ikiwiki --setup debug.setup --refresh --verbose`` is issued. + + /index.mdwn + |-album01.mdwn + |-album01/ + | |-imgA.jpg + | |-imgB.jpg + | + |-album02.mdwn + |-album02/ + | |-imgC.jpg + | |-imgD.jpg + | + |-album03.mdwn + |-album03/ + | |-imgE.jpg + | |-imgF.jpg + +This happens even if the indexpage has no links and when the tree is one level deeper than above with a folder between the index and each ``album$0n`` tuple. Touching index.mdwn rebuilds for instance imgF viewer and output like for example the following as a result of changing ``album01.mdwn`` + + building album02/imgC, its previous or next page has changed + building album03/imgE, its previous or next page has changed + building album02.mdwn, which depends on album02/imgC + +In other words using the album plugin means all changes trigger full rebuilds (as far as I can tell). With my workflow this hasn't been much of an issue as my sites are static and updated maximum once a week but it does make comments unfeasible. + +Perhaps there is something in my setup that triggers this problem? If anyone has an ikiwiki album installation where ``--refresh`` limits the scope of the rebuild to just one album I'd be interested to hear. See for an live website that has this problem. I've tested a simpler debug site without any customization as well. + + -- cgit v1.2.3