Table Of Contents

System Prerequisites

Minitage advanced usage

Minitage and paster templates: projects & instances

Archives index

Installation, the old school way (obsolete & unmaintained)¶

Variables¶

$prefix: root of minitage

$ins: root of a project inside minitage

Buildout Configuration¶

To store all downloaded stuff in the same place, you ll need to set buildout to do so.

mkdir -p ~/.buildout/downloads
cat << EOF > ~/.buildout/default.cfg
[buildout]
download-directory = $HOME/.buildout/downloads
download-cache = $HOME/.buildout/downloads
EOF

Installing minitage¶

A stable version¶

Minitage is a classical python egg, you can get it throught easy_install (DISTRIBUTE).

To install minitage in a stable version, follow those steps:
!!! PIP IS NOT SUPPORTED !!!
Install minitage
source $prefix/bin/activate
easy_install -U minitage
Sync its packages (all its minilays in minitage terminology).

This will initiate also all the minitage directories for the first run.
source $prefix/bin/activate
minimerge -s

Using minitage¶

Those are usage samples... You have not to run that if you do not need to ;)

Install python-xxx¶

source $prefix/bin/activate
minimerge python-xxx

Install a custom minilay¶

# get the project minilay
# minitage is aware of the MINILAYS environnment variable, you can use it to specify space separated minlays
scm CHECKOUT  https://subversion.foo.net/YOURPROJECT/minilay/trunk $prefix/minilays/YOURPROJECTMINILAY

Deploy a project with minitage¶

# get the project minilay
# minitage is aware of the MINILAYS environnment variable, you can use it to specify space separated minlays
scm CHECKOUT  https://subversion.foo.net/YOURPROJECT/minilay/trunk $prefix/minilays/YOURPROJECTMINILAY
# minimerging it
source $prefix/bin/activate
minimerge project

Extra options and usage¶

source $prefix/bin/activate
minimerge  --help