Package Builder

Shawn Conn - January 17, 2008 - 20:46

Package builder is designed to automate the process of creating customized Drupal packages with a custom installation profile. Once enabled and permissions set, users can access the package builder form. In the form, users can specify a project's short name on drupal.org to add to the project to the package. With all projects added, users can specify which modules to enable. From there, users can add the project name, description, and custom PHP code to run after installation has taken place. After clicking "Build package" the package builder does the rest. Once completed, the package builder will have dumped a tarball into its file directory where a user can download the file.

Users wanting to automate the process of creating PHP code to run after the installer will find the following modules helpful:

NOTE: Module is dependent on PEAR's Archive_Tar package and PHP's zlib and cURL functions for handling of tarballs and downloading them from drupal.org. The Update Status module is used for retrieving drupal.org project revisions.

Development for the module was sponsored by the Ubercart project