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Quick and Easy Drush Debian Packaging

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I found a really nice way of packaging up drush as a debian package without having to go through all the hassle of creating all the files for a “true” debian package.

You’ll need the following:

Git
Composer
FPM gem

You can then run the following commands to setup your base environment for packaging:

git clone git@github.com:drush-ops/drush.git
cd drush
composer install
sudo gem install fpm

To test to make sure your latest master copy of drush is working quickly run either drush or drush —version

Now you are ready to package the contents up:

fpm -s dir -t deb -n drush -v master ./drush=/usr/bin

What this does is tell fpm you want to create a deb file from a directory with a version name of master (corresponding to the branch we checked out in git), it also configures the output directory.

Once that’s run you should see the newly created package appear. To verify it’s contents run dkpg -c drush_master_amd64.deb

Throw in a parameterised job in jenkins and you have a nice way of creating version specific debian packages for deployment.

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Override servers version of drush

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I had to work on a server that was heavily restricted by a third party company. They were using an archaic version of drush so I decided to change it!

I have no access to sudo or any form of root account, this made things even more interesting. No wget either.

Download drush 6.2.0 to local machine
Download console_table 1.1.3 (has to be this version)
scp both drush and console_table to remote server
unzip drush to ~/drush-6.2.0
tar -zxf console_table to ~/drush-6.2.0/lib/
modify .bashrc / .zshrc and add the following: PATH="/home/badger/drush-6.2.0:$PATH” export PATH
source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.zshrc

There you go the latest version of drush on a locked down system.

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Download Drupal to Current Directory using Drush

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This has always bugged me, you can’t easily download Drupal to your current directory using drush. After a quick search I found this issue - https://drupal.org/node/495438

The following command works well -

drush dl -d --destination=".." --drupal-project-rename="$(basename `pwd`)"

So what’s it doing?

–destination - specifies where to download Drupal to
–drupal-project-rename - renames the downloaded directory to your current directory

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