The minitage swiss knife, minimerge¶

Verbose mode¶

Usable with any other option, recommended to use which each command !

minimerge -v [opts] [args]

Dry run¶

minimerge [opts] -pv [args]

Ask mode¶

minimerge will wait for your confirmation before proceeding to anything:

minimerge [opts] -a [args]

Squizzes dependencies¶

minimerge -j dep package

If you want to install a and a depends on b, c, d respectivly. To squizze b and c and only install d and a:

minimerge -j d a

Build only dependencies¶

minimerge --only-dependencies package

Update your minilays¶

minimerge -s

Install a package and its dependencies¶

minimerge package

Install a package without dealing with dependencies¶

That will run only your package installation:

minimerge -N package

Update the package codebase¶

That will run the update method of what you have used to checkout your package:

minimerge -NU package

Run again the installation of a package¶

That will run the update method of what you have used to checkout your package:

minimerge package

Unconditionnally install or reinstall a package¶

minimerge -NR package

Note¶

All the previous options can be combined.

Update/Rebuid a package and all its dependencies¶

To install & rebuild a package and all its dependencies:

minimerge -s
minimerge -Uu package

Behaviour notes¶

• Minitage will never run automaticly again where a buildout has been already run and has left an ‘installed.cfg’ file. You must tell it explicitly to do that like:

  • Just run the buildout:

    minimerge  -NRuU package # up
    minimerge  -NR package

Relaunch an interrupted minitage¶

minimerge  mypackage

Relaunch a failed installation exactly where it stopped¶

minimerge -j myfailedpackage package