drush

sudo ~/drush.experimental.6/drush.php -r /var/www/drupal-6-agaric-core/drupal pm install link

On sharing the command with an esteemed Agaric colleague, I realized that the instructions had to be tweaked slightly... for another person, even if run

The ability to use the Drush Package Manager (drush pm) to install a module in an arbitrarily specified directory doesn't presently exist.

Testing the code in the Drush does NOT have to be a module! issue. Specifically, the ready-to-run tarball in comment #36.

Unable to use Drush on localhost site for unknown reasons.

There really is a running site at http://localhost/scf but through the command line it must be seeing something else– it's giving back to me the HTML for a Drupal site offline, database connection error page.

./sites/all/modules/drush/drush.php -r /sites/scf/ -l http://localhost/scf/ pm install taxonomy_enhancer

I don't get clearer than that...

Resolution

Drush love continues. First, we use Drush's command line help to answer our every question. It follows the format drush help command.

ben@server:/sites/ignitecleanenergy/www/sites/all/modules$ drush/drush.php help pm install

Usage: drush [options] pm install ...
is the short name of a project hosted on drupal.org,
or the short name and the version number (Drupal major version is optional).
e.g. project, project-5.x-1.0, project-1.0, project-1.x-dev, project-1.1-rc1
So far, only modules are supported.

Posted to the Drupal.org 2008 predictions thread:

Many useful modules available for Drupal 5 will either be forced to merge together, or forked/merged substitutes will appear as people become tired of dang diddly modularinos (sorry Ned Flanders).

I don't think that will happen, and if it does I think it will be a bad thing.

I do think people will see the importance of letting newbieuser (or expertuser for that matter) pick module W and have X, Y, and Z installed automatically.

Posted to Drush issue queue:

Here's Agaric's workflow (ignore the lack of a link to Drush's path, we have too many Drupal installations to make that practical at the moment):

cd /var/www/drupal-5_3-live/sites/all/modules/
sudo php drush/drush.php -l http://example.com pm install fasttoggle
sudo svn add fasttoggle
sudo svn commit -m "Installed fasttoggle via Drush"

0 stedile:/var/www/d53/sites/all/modules# php drush/drush.php -l http://dev.wsf2008.net pm install taxonomy_redirect

Resolution

Just so y'all know.

Update Status module must take a while to get its info.