On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 07:13:28PM +0100, Jaime E . Villate wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:51:07AM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote: > > Ok, it has updated today. IIRC, the previous timestamp was Apr 16 16:46, so > > I > > assume there is a crontab that updates the pages every 2 days. > > Carlos has received a reply already, but I'll answer too, to make sure I > understand (I'm new to this, so please correct me if I'm wrong). > > The pages are updated every six hours. But if the pages you committed had > errors, the wml process will not generate the new pages (that's why you didn't > see any changes in the pages you committed, even six hours after you did it). > While it is true that an error in a page will keep it from being updated, that was not the problem in this case. The Debian pages use a number of template files, which are nested (a includes b which includes c). In order to make sure pages are updated properly the Makefiles are told what files a particular file depends on. A new file was recently added and the dependency information was not updated. Thus, when Carlos updated the file, the page (html) wasn't rebuilt.
> This means you should make sure the pages you commit can be correctly > processed by wml, before you commit them. To check them, you should install > the most recent version of wml (2.0.6), then use "make" and see that the html > pages are created and give the result you expected; you can then use "make > clean" (never commit any of the html pages generated with make!). > Everyone should definitely check pages before committing them. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
