I recently moved from Trisquel's version of ikiwiki (from 2013, the same one of Debian wheezy backports) to the version 5.20141016 which I built from git, by pulling the tag. One of the new things I have now is the templatebody directive.

Not directly relevant to this bug, but if you want the latest ikiwiki release for a Debian derivative, you can fetch it from Debian unstable (normally) or Debian experimental (during the Debian release freeze, e.g. now) - the correct way is to get the (signed) source package with dget or similar, check the GPG signature (which should be from me or Joey), and rebuild it for your distribution. Just getting the binary .deb from Debian is a little more risky, depending how far your distribution has diverged from Debian, but in the case of ikiwiki it should usually work fine in practice. --smcv

I started using it in my templates, and I suddenly notice strange behavior: one of my templates renders as the rest of the template page when used, instead of the body part. In other words, it renders exactly the part it should hide (the description) and ignores the body itself (which is inside [[!templatebody ]]).

With a hint from kjs on discussion, I was able to reproduce this bug. It seems to have been caused by an optimization: please try applying commit 5fd863b5 to your Render.pm. A follow-up commit partially brings back the optimization (only for rebuilds). So I think this is done? (remove that link if not) --smcv

When I manually re-generate the wiki, it suddenly renders right. As soon as the page gets rebuilt automatically after some git push, it renders the wrong way.

Where did you install the newer ikiwiki? /usr/local? Somewhere else?

It sounds to me as though manual re-generation is using ikiwiki ≥ 3.20140916 with the templatebody directive enabled, but the git hook is using ikiwiki < 3.20140916 and/or has the templatebody disabled. This might result from having a different PERL5LIB environment variable in the two situations, for instance.

It might help to debug this if you edit your older and newer ikiwiki's IkiWiki.pm, IkiWiki/Render.pm and/or IkiWiki/Plugin/templatebody.pm so they do print STDERR "loaded (old/new) (whatever).pm" at some fairly early stage - I would suggest getsetup(), refresh() and import() respectively. --smcv

Yes, I installed in /usr/local, but I also removed the deb package. So I only have 1 ikiwiki version now.

I also noticed the following behavior. I created a set of pages, each of them containing several occurences of a certain template. Then I created another page, which inlines all of them. All good. Then, I edited that main page to do different sorting (using inline directive's sort option). After comitting the change, suddenly all the inlined pages have the templates inside them contain the template info instead of template body. How is that even related to the minor change I did - change the sorting?

I'll look at the templatebody.pm file and try debug prints. I hope I can see them in the git push output, because rendering the wiki from command line doesn't have this problem.

One more thing, my setup uses the pingee plugin. When doing a git push, it browses to the wiki page using wget with ?do=ping parameter, and then ikiwiki responds by rebuilding the necessary pages.

Thanks for the pointers.

--fr33domlover

This is the page, and this is a template it uses. Right now the template is rendered on that page exactly like the template page itself. Both display the description text, and the [[!templatebody ]] content isn't displayed at all.

If I debug it myself and find something relevant, I'll update here.

-- fr33domlover