Why does “forrest site” sometimes skip linkmap.html and do nothing else?

[Brolin Empey-3]

Hello Forresters,

I have not searched to see if this issue has already been discussed
because I wanted to quickly ask instead of adding it to 1 of my long
todo lists because this issue just happened Yet Again™.  I have been
ignoring this issue for years and finally want to at least know what
causes it.

The issue is exactly as the Subject says:  sometimes “forrest site”
skips linkmap.html and does nothing else when I expect it to rebuild
the static site.  The rest of the build seems to work, but the “build”
does not actually build anything.  Sometime the same thing happens
when I run “forrest site" again, but I do not think it ever happens
more than 2 consecutive times before “forrest site” works as expected
and does more than skipping linkmap.html.

Investigating this issue has been a low priority for years because I
am so used to it so I just keep running “forrest site" until it works
as expected, but it is still annoying.

Any ideas?  I hope this is not a repost.

Thanks,
Brolin

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[Brian M Dube-2]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:02:49PM -0700, Brolin Empey wrote:
> The issue is exactly as the Subject says:  sometimes “forrest site”
> skips linkmap.html and does nothing else when I expect it to rebuild
> the static site.

I haven't seen this behavior. Which version of Forrest? Have you
customised any forrest.properties settings which affect the build
process?

Brian

[Brolin Empey-3]

2009/11/3 Brian M Dube <bdube@...>
>
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:02:49PM -0700, Brolin Empey wrote:
> > The issue is exactly as the Subject says:  sometimes “forrest site”
> > skips linkmap.html and does nothing else when I expect it to rebuild
> > the static site.
>
> I haven't seen this behavior. Which version of Forrest?

0.9-dev.  According to “svn status -u”, I am using rev 776756.

> Have you
> customised any forrest.properties settings which affect the build
> process?

Not that I know of, but I have checksums enabled (shouldn’t that
feature be called hashes?).

I can post my config files if you want.

[David Crossley]

Brolin Empey wrote:
> Brian M Dube wrote:
> >
> > I haven't seen this behavior. Which version of Forrest?
>
> 0.9-dev.  According to ?svn status -u?, I am using rev 776756.

I do have a vague memory of something.
Searching for "start-uri" might help.

Your SVN trunk does seem old ... now r832673
(that is the total ASF revisions, not just Forrest).

> > Have you
> > customised any forrest.properties settings which affect the build
> > process?
>
> Not that I know of, but I have checksums enabled (shouldn?t that
> feature be called hashes?).

Cocoon calls it "checksums" so we pass that on.

-David