GNU-Linux

Added Xdebug
Inspired to finally install by Visual Backtrace.

MAMP and XDebug:
http://www.openkomodo.com/blogs/jeffg/php-leopard-or-how-use-mamp-instead
more in depth:

http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/node/view/52

(Fix described more succinctly in my follow-up comment on my plea-for-help issue.)

DEPRECATED: Use Piston

In this case we're using svn externals to have a module in two places in a repository, but of course it works just as well for a truly external repository.

Drupal Staging Solution
http://drupal.org/node/181128

Drupal development server configuration
http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/drupal-dev-server

Check out Drupal 5 to a directory called "drupal5" -- note the use of the -r and -d flags, and the final drupal is not the directory you put it in, but the directory you are getting it from on Drupal.org!

Current model for getting core for Agaric's centrally managed system:

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r DRUPAL-5-9 -d drupal-5 drupal

And then update to version numbers:

cvs update -r DRUPAL-6-5 -dP

In MAMP, php.ini for PHP5 often needs to be edited because it is set to only 8MB by default, leading to white screen of death. It is found here (using Terminal or iTerm):

vi /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5/php.ini

And in Vi you can search for memory limit by typing /memory, and i to start editing text.

You can then go to the MAMP application and stop servers and start them again.

(Posted as comment to handbook here.)

Update: Forget it. Complication outweighs benefits.

Note: Before you start doing any of this, you would need to copy Agaric's git directory structure-- note that this is not a single git repository, but many git repositories. More on that elsewhere, this is about using the system properly set up.

What finally works:

Navigate to the pseudo-repository's sites directory:

cd /RCS/git/agaric-sites/
Ebony-II:agaric-sites ben$ git-new-site.sh 5 test

To source a file in a shell script is similar to the way one can include or require a file in PHP.

http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/sdeg/bash_startup.htm

http://2bits.com/articles/upgrading-drupal-5-2-installations-to-5-3-security-releases-using-a-single-patch.html

Agaric has modified version the shell command version (listed by Khalid right above the comments) to be a script that can patch Drupal regardless of the name of its current directory..

Agaric's version is attached.

sudo aptitude install munin-node

sudo aptitude install munin 

sudo vi /etc/munin/munin.conf

a simple host tree

[wsf.grassrootsconnection.org]
address 127.0.0.1
use_node_name yes

Skipping this for now -- and I think this assumes both munin and munin-node on one server:

As a security measure, we are going to change so the node bind itself to the loopback interface.
So go and edit /etc/munin/munin-node.conf and make sure the host value looks like this: