X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/155ebc3dbdcb265d5afa61fd46b20bf2fd9387fb..3bb00d142a4d31316fc6f0eb1277aa2fafe4dbe9:/doc/bugs/inline_sort_order_and_meta_date_value.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/bugs/inline_sort_order_and_meta_date_value.mdwn b/doc/bugs/inline_sort_order_and_meta_date_value.mdwn index d851ef397..d4ec8f345 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/inline_sort_order_and_meta_date_value.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/inline_sort_order_and_meta_date_value.mdwn @@ -99,3 +99,216 @@ first, explains everything you describe. If not, please send me a shell script test case I can run, as instructions like "Create pages that sort different by mtime and ctime" are not ones that I know how to follow (given that touch sets *both*). --[[Joey]] + +> Sorry. I conflated Unix ctime and ikiwiki's creation time because I +> didn't think the difference was important to this case. I'm a writer, +> and I should have known better -- I appologize. Revised steps to +> reproduce are below; feel free to delete this whole misunderstanding +> to make the bug report more concise. +> +> 1. Create pages in the srcdir that should sort in one order by +> last-modification time and in a diffent order by original creation +> time. For example: +> +> $ echo -e '\[[!meta date="2007-01-01"]]\nNew.' > test/new.mdwn +> $ echo -e '\[[!meta date="2006-01-01"]]\nOld.' > test/old.mdwn +> +> 2. Create a page that includes the files. For example: +> +> +> $ echo '\[[!inline pages="test/*"]]' > sort-test.mdwn +> +> 3. Run ikiwiki. For example `ikiwiki --setup setup_file` +> +> 4. Pages are output incorrectly in modification time order. For example, +> actual partial HTML of the sort-test/index.html from commands used +> above (whitespace-only lines removed; one whitespace-only line +> added): +> +>
+> +> +> +> 5. Run ikiwiki again with the same command line. For example: `ikiwiki --setup setup_file` +> +> 6. Pages are output correctly in creation time order. For example, +> actual partial HTML of the sort-test/index.html from commands used +> above (whitespace-only lines removed; one whitespace-only line +> added): +> +> +> +> +> +> 7. Create a new page with the current Unix mtime and Unix ctime, but a +> !meta date before the most recent creation date of another page. +> For example: +> +> $ echo -e '\[[!meta date="2005-01-01"]]\nOlder.' > test/older.mdwn +> +> 8. Run ikiwiki again with the same command line. For example: `ikiwiki --setup setup_file` +> +> 9. All previously sorted pages output correctly in order of their +> creation time, but the new page is output incorrectly at the top as +> if its modification time was its creation time. For example, +> actual partial HTML of the sort-test/index.html from commands used +> above (whitespace-only lines removed; two whitespace-only +> lines added): +> +> +> +> +> +> +> +> 10. Run ikiwiki again with the same command line. For example: `ikiwiki --setup setup_file` +> +> 11. All pages, including new page, are output correctly in creation time +> order. For example, actual partial HTML of the sort-test/index.html +> from commands used above (whitespace-only lines removed; two +> whitespace-only lines added): +> +> +> +> +> +> +> +> File status after all the above actions: +> +> $ stat test/* +> File: `test/new.mdwn' +> Size: 33 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file +> Device: ca20h/51744d Inode: 684160 Links: 1 +> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ harding) Gid: ( 1000/ harding) +> Access: 2008-12-20 21:48:32.000000000 -0500 +> Modify: 2008-12-20 21:27:03.000000000 -0500 +> Change: 2008-12-20 21:27:03.000000000 -0500 +> File: `test/older.mdwn' +> Size: 35 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file +> Device: ca20h/51744d Inode: 684407 Links: 1 +> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ harding) Gid: ( 1000/ harding) +> Access: 2008-12-20 21:48:32.000000000 -0500 +> Modify: 2008-12-20 21:42:10.000000000 -0500 +> Change: 2008-12-20 21:42:10.000000000 -0500 +> File: `test/old.mdwn' +> Size: 33 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file +> Device: ca20h/51744d Inode: 684161 Links: 1 +> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ harding) Gid: ( 1000/ harding) +> Access: 2008-12-20 21:48:32.000000000 -0500 +> Modify: 2008-12-20 21:27:09.000000000 -0500 +> Change: 2008-12-20 21:27:09.000000000 -0500 +> +> My ikiwiki configuration file (being used to port a blog from pyblosxom +> to ikiwiki): +> +> harding@mail:~$ sed 's/#.*//; /^[ ]*$/d' .ikiwiki/gnuisance.setup +> use IkiWiki::Setup::Standard { +> wikiname => "HardingBlog", +> adminemail => 'dave@dtrt.org', +> srcdir => "/srv/backup/git/gnuisance.net", +> destdir => "/srv/test.dtrt.org", +> url => "http://srv.dtrt.org", +> wrappers => [ +> ], +> atom => 1, +> syslog => 0, +> prefix_directives => 1, +> add_plugins => [qw{goodstuff tag}], +> disable_plugins => [qw{passwordauth}], +> tagbase => "tag", +> } +> +> --[David A. Harding](http://dtrt.org/), 2008-12-20 + +Thank you for a textbook excellent reproduction recipe. + +What appears to be going on here is that meta directives are not processed +until the leaf pages are rendered, and thus the ctime setting is not +available at the time that they are inlined, and the newer unix ctime is +used. On the second build, the meta data has already been recorded. + +This can probably be avoided by processing meta date at scan time. + +Verified, fix works. [[done]] +--[[Joey]]