[hobbit] Alternate pageset and noconn ?

[Dominique Frise]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:07:13PM +0200, Dominique Frise wrote:
> 
>>Dominique Frise wrote:
>>
>>>>This patch should fix it. It isn't pretty, but it should work.
>>
>>I think the fix does not cover the case where the same host should appear 
>>on different pages of an alternate pageset. We have such cases where a 
>>given host handles different services that should be grouped logically on 
>>different pages (Databases, Directories, File Sharing, Mail).
> 
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't see how that can be handled correctly with the
> way the alternate pagesets are currently built.
> 
> I've said on a number of occasions that the alternate pageset handling
> needs some serious work; the current setup is just too inflexible and
> error-prone. So right now I'll consider this a bug, but one that will
> not be fixed for the moment.
> 

OK.
We needed this feature to create summary page set for the management and 
helpdesk.
In the meantime I think we could use bbgen on alternate bb-hosts files.
We'll give it a try.

Thanks.

Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne