A meta package-manager to deploy projects on UNIX Systemes sponsored by Makina Corpus.
Project description
minitage is a meta-package manager. It’s a package manager which install packages with the help of other build systems.
Its goal is to help you to deploy projects in a standardised layout and to build things quickly and in a simple manner by putting in environment all configurations. like:
cflags
ldflags
$PATH
The main documentation is not there but on http://www.minitage.org, please go there for further instructions.
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QuickStart with minitage
The whole doc is not there
but on http://www.minitage.org
Check your Python
You need a python with setuptools, zlib, bz2 and ssl support.
Try that in your interpretery:
>>> import tarfile >>> import zipfile >>> import bz2 >>> import _ssl >>> import zlib >>> import setuptools >>>
If you do not have that, you can give a try to my pyboostrapper that bootstrap a python somewhere:
wget http://git.minitage.org/git/minitage/shell/plain/PyBootstrapper.sh chmod -x PyBootstrapper.sh bash ./PyBootstrapper.sh /path/to/pythonPrefix
Using virtualenv
You ‘d better to use virtualenv , minitage fits well with it.
virtualenv is a tool that allow you to create isolated Python environments.
Here is how to set up an environment with it:
Install virtualenv:
easy_install virtualenv #(maybe use sudo ;))Install minitage prefix:
virtualenv --no-site-packages ~/minitageactivate it:
source ~/minitage/bin/activateKEEP IN MIND THAT YOU MUST ACTIVATE VIRTUALENV AT ANY TIME YOU USE IT.
minitage installation
The whole doc is not there but on http://www.minitage.org/installation.html.
Minitage is a classical python egg, you can get it throught easy_install.
To install minitage in a stable version, follow those steps:
Install minitage:
easy_install -U mercurial minitage.core
Sync its packages (all its minilays in minitage terminology).:
minimerge -s
Syncing packages
To sync all your minilays
If you need to, fire your virtualenv:
source ~/minitage/bin/activateSync:
minimerge -s
Changelog for minitage.core
2.0.24 (unreleased)
fix bug in pretend
move to github
add mercurial to dependencies to facillitate buildout integration
add python versions for pretend and ‘eggs’ packages
rebuild ‘eggs’ packages only if they need to be (markers are now in place for the particular python version)
remove useless mercurial dep
2.0
FEATURES;
Auto Update system. When minimerge upgrade (easy_install -U), we have now the infrastructure to run update callbacks.
Now minibuilds have revisions, this can facilitate their reinstallation as reverse dependencies
give means to select the python to build against for python modules (–all-python-versions or specify python to use along with the package (minimerge -pv foo python-2.4)
force eggs category reinstallation
add an only dependencies switch to buld only dependencies
win32 compatibility (first rush, alpha quality)
add replace/per/os/dependencies mecanism in minibuilds
allow minibuild names with only major as version
BUGS:
support symlink in remove_path (API)
enhance remove_path function
fix a bug in bootstrapping buildout
rewrite fetchers
improve proxy handling
fix some tests
make parts shut up
test incomplete downloads and redownload them (package level)
make minibuild name more permissive
fix bug in new checkouts
fix a bug insde the get_from_cache helper when a fragmented url is used and the upstream server does not understand them
add a special exception for search_latest when error happen.
fake user agent in urlopen calls to prevent mad sysadmins restrictions on python useragent.
explicit error when the buildout configuration file is not there
use setuptools package_index.download helper funtion instead of directly urllib2 to avoid sourceforge download errors
1.0.19
distribute fix
1.0.18
remove deprecationwarning
1.0.17
remove deprecationwarning
1.0.16
oups, left print
1.0.15
let the default minilay be at lower priority among all
1.0.14
desactivating updates manager for more tests.
-> 1.0.13
Minitage now allows binaries to be used instead of compiling programs, in the gentoo -k way.
Minitage has now also an update manager to run udpate functions on upgrade.
1.0.5
bugfix on url md5sum fragments
1.0.4
make conditionnal weither we are offline or not the download in the get_from_cache function.
1.0.0 -> 1.0.3
x64 enlightments
add optionnal force switch to the download cache function
1.0
some API adds like ‘search_latest’ and ‘which’
bugfix in interfaces for configuration handling
buildout maker can be given an optionnal config to build
code stabilization and sync with other minitage components
official documentation on http://www.minitage.org
0.32
Fetch by default over http
0.4.30
Bind buildout newest mode with -u option
0.4.30
do not delete directories but overwrite when the package src uri change.
0.4.29
Make minitage lives on git
0.4.28
Make minitage git aware both in recipes and in core.
0.4.27
force setuptools version
0.4.26
bugfix on common functions (API)
0.4.21
quiet mode is now optionnal are there are numerous bugs with it.
0.4.8
Maintenance release
testruner
buildoutified
some refactor and code cleanings
logging is now better handled and your minimerge sessions will be as quiet as possible.
0.4.5
Bug in fetchers (not critical …)
0.4.4
- Add an option (-f)
when set : fetch all before build
when not set : fetch and build each package one after another
0.4.2
Remove the category check
0.4.2
Remove the backtrace from the launcher when minimerge fails
0.4.1
Release version
0.4_alpha12
Fix scm type validator
0.4_alpha11
bzr DVCS integration
0.4_alpha10
Add support for variables in minibuilds setted in minitage configuration file. Use $name in minibuilds and set it in the [minitage.variables] section.
0.4_alpha9
reinforce buildout code
0.4_alpha8
restore previous version scheme
a0.4_alpha5
add mercurial explicit dependency
0.4_alpha4
remove old minilay
0.4_alpha1
This is a pre release, minitage is working. But it is not empty from bugs. Feel free to give your feedback :)
Minimerge totally rewritten in python
Support for conditionnal dependencies toward python version
Support for eggs in addition of site-packages added to the PYTHONPATH
Support for conditionnal (OS) dependencies
Lot of improvments on error handling
Logging mode
Configuration via a file is now possible
up to 0.3
not public, nothing to see there.
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