a71f33ea4a34a46a90957e9b59cd7235cbdff4e9
hiram
  Mon Aug 3 15:56:12 2026 -0700
adding annotation version notes correctly to ncbiGene.html description page refs #37958

diff --git src/hg/utils/automation/doAssemblyHub.pl src/hg/utils/automation/doAssemblyHub.pl
index 24dd3043425..009da4ce761 100755
--- src/hg/utils/automation/doAssemblyHub.pl
+++ src/hg/utils/automation/doAssemblyHub.pl
@@ -1965,38 +1965,40 @@
     -maskedSeq=$buildDir/trackData/addMask/\$asmId.masked.2bit \$asmId) > do.log 2>&1
   if [ -s "\$asmId.xenoRefGene.bb" ]; then
   bigBedInfo \$asmId.xenoRefGene.bb | egrep "^itemCount:|^basesCovered:" \\
     | sed -e 's/,//g' > \$asmId.xenoRefGene.stats.txt
   LC_NUMERIC=en_US /usr/bin/printf "# xenoRefGene %s %'d %s %'d\\n" `cat \$asmId.xenoRefGene.stats.txt` | xargs echo
   fi
 else
   printf "# xenoRefGene step previously completed\\n" 1>&2
 fi
 _EOF_
   );
   $bossScript->execute();
 } # doXenoRefGene
 
 #########################################################################
-# * step: trackDb [workhorse]
+# * step: trackDb [dbHost]
 sub doTrackDb {
   my $runDir = "$buildDir";
   &HgAutomate::mustMkdir($runDir);
 
   my $whatItDoes = "construct asmId.trackDb.txt file";
+  # must run on $dbHost: asmHubTrackDb.sh calls per-track html description
+  # generators (e.g. asmHubNcbiGene.pl) that hgsql the 'genark' database
   my $bossScript = newBash HgRemoteScript("$runDir/doTrackDb.bash",
-                    $workhorse, $runDir, $whatItDoes);
+                    $dbHost, $runDir, $whatItDoes);
 
   if (! -s "${buildDir}/trackData/chromAlias/${defaultName}.chromAlias.txt" ) {
     die "ERROR: can not find ${defaultName}.chromAlias.txt in\n# ${buildDir}/trackData/chromAlias/\n";
   }
 
   $bossScript->add(<<_EOF_
 export defaultName=$defaultName
 export asmId=$asmId
 export buildDir=$buildDir
 
 rm -f \$defaultName.chromAlias.txt
 ln -s trackData/chromAlias/\${defaultName}.chromAlias.txt .
 if [ -s trackData/chromAlias/\${defaultName}.chromAlias.bb ]; then
   rm -f \${defaultName}.chromAlias.bb
   ln -s trackData/chromAlias/\${defaultName}.chromAlias.bb .