ikiwiki could have an option to process /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist and run ikiwiki in aggregate mode for all wikis that need it. The Debian package could then include an optional cron job to automatically handle aggregation. > You can actually use ikiwiki-mass-rebuild for this. Just pass --aggregate > --refresh to it. (The program could have a clearer name, perhaps I should > rename it to mass-ikiwiki? ikiwiki-map? ikiwiki-all? ...) > > A cron job like the one > you suggest could also handle cases when plugins call for a page > to be rebuilt. For example, a calendar plugin could use this to refresh a > calendar daily. > > I do worry that such a cron job would produce more load than might be optimal. > If you have one wiki that never needs to updated, > another that might want to update daily, and a third that wants to update > every 15 minutes for aggregation, updating all three every 15 minutes wastes > a bit of CPU time. Two cron jobs seem like a better fit > in this situation, rather than a one size fits all master cron job. But it > would be fine adding a cron job as an example, at least. > > Another problem is that ikiwiki --aggregate will fail on any wikis that don't > have the aggregate plugin enabled. This is really a problem with the plugin's > special-casey approach of adding a new flag. This could be fixed by adding > a more general syntax like "--set aggregate=1". (done) > > Sorry for making this sound so complex, it's a good idea, but I'm on an > airplane and have nothing good to do except blather on here, and read > haskell tutorials. ;-) --[[Joey]]