Doc HOWTO: Installing aGov on Aegir

Just a keylog that I found handy to get a site up and running on an Aegir (D6-1.x) dev platform.
In the past I've been stung by wacky install profiles killing Aegir core, but it looks like the current release of aGov works well with it...

I pull my makefile bases into /var/aegir/makefiles as a place to store them. This is not a convention, just a convenience. Substitute paths as you see fit...

I run drush5 as an alternative version on my hostmaster, although Aegir D6 prefers to be locked to Drush 4. I found that the drush5 build worked better, drush4 didn't recognize install profiles right. I have both available, drush (5) and drush5

# RUNNING AS aegir USER! This in infinitely important.
cd /var/aegir/makefiles
git clone --branch 7.x-1.x http://git.drupal.org/project/agov.git
drush5 make -v /var/aegir/makefiles/agov/build-agov.make /var/www/agov/dev

I have become paranoid about losing my Aegir site again #1678528: Database deleted on edge cases
So right now I also run:

# Use drush5, as it drush4 may fail silently if there is a problem. drush5 tells you.
drush5 @hostmaster sql-dump --result-file=/var/aegir/backups/hostmaster-`date +'%Y%m%d'`.sql

And we can make a new aGov instance! Normally that would be on the Admin console, but I'm already on the commandline so lets drush it...

You can go to the Hostmaster console now and import the platform if you like., If not, read on...

Scripting the import of a platform+site into Aegir without the front-end

You don't need to do this this way, in fact it's probably better not to, but I'm setting up for some scripted roll-outs, so it's handy to know how..
From here we use drush(4) not drush5, as that's the one that provision has been developed against.

Import and verify the platform.

drush --root="/var/www/agov/dev" provision-save @agov7xdev --context_type='platform' --strict=0
drush @agov7xdev provision-verify
drush @hostmaster hosting-import @agov7xdev

Create and install the site instance

drush provision-save @dev.agov.coders.co.nz --context_type='site' \
  --uri="dev.agov.coders.co.nz" --platform="@agov7xdev" \
  --server='@server_master' --db_server='@server_localhost' \
  --profile='agov' --client_name='admin' --strict=0
drush -v  @dev.agov.coders.co.nz provision-install
# I THINK this next step is the correct one to eventually register the new site on the hostmaster frontend.
drush @agov7xdev provision-verify
# Other lower level attempts seemed to work, but then get re-run anyway when the platform noticed the new site.

Anyway. Once all that is done you have a new aGov site. Yay.

Anyone found any issues with aGov on Aegir? Looks like it's working to me!

Is there any chance we can get an all-in-one or self-bootstrapping makefile so that we can enter the URL of the makefile directly into the drush make command (or the Aegir UI) and skip the first-download-the-profile-then-run-the-make-command-that-re-downloads-the-profile step?