Comments on: Provisionator on Drupal CVS

By: greggles

greggles — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Not to fork your blog-thread too hard, but that specifically about CVS do you dislike? If you can enumerate your points a transition would be more likely to happen sooner than later.

I like SVN as well, but Drupal won’t be moving to SVN until there is an svn module which contains the same functionality as the cvs.module – note that there are at least two svn modules available now: http://drupal.org/project/subversion and http://drupal.org/project/svn but I don’t believe either really strives to be the cvs replacement for project.

By: mariuss

mariuss — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

So you would install provisionator as a module in one of the sites, right?

Wouldn’t it make sense to have it completely outside of Drupal? Security wise your solution is a bit scary to me.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

greggles – CVS just needs more feeding. In SVN, you can add an entire directory of folders and files with a single svn add, while with CVS, you have to manually add every directory and file separately. Painful. Took me 4 commits to get everything properly into Drupal CVS. That’s just one gripe

Mariuss – yeah. You’d set up a “master” site, enabling Provisionator for it, and use it as a deployment control panel from there. It started life as a separate application, but it felt out of place that way. Security would totally be an issue, if “access provisionator” privilege was granted too freely. For added security, the Provisionator module could be installed only for a single site in it’s own site/sitename/modules directory. Then, people couldn’t use it on their own provisioned drupal sites… Actually, that’s how it should be done, or in a separate installation of Drupal.

By: Bill Fitzgerald

Bill Fitzgerald — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

D’Arcy,

I saw this come through drupal.org earlier today — I’m looking forward to testing this out — thanks for sharing this back!

By: mariuss

mariuss — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

D’Arcy – my main concern with regards to security is that you have to make the sites folder world writable. Right?

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I suppose you do, but you’d have to do that with the Drupal 5 installer as well, and similar things while installing MediaWiki, Moodle, etc… It doesn’t have to be _world_ writable, just writable by www (which is effectively the same thing, though…)