Deploying Drupal via CVS (including modules).
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This blog post is pretty old. Be careful with the information you find in here. The Times They Are A-Changin'
If you’re not using version control for your software projects please turn in your geek badge at the door. Seriously, version control makes life so much easier when developing features for a site or deploying a site. The best version control out there currently would have to be Git, subversion a distant second, and coming in last the old and painful CVS. Drupal is currently on CVS, but migrating to Git, we’ll have to deal with CVS for now.
Needless to say, these have to be run from the command line
Step One: Installing the Core
In the directory that you would normally download and unzip drupal you’ll want to run this command to grab Drupal core from the CVS server
cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:[email protected]:/cvs/drupal co -r DRUPAL-6-14 drupalThat will grab
- Drupal version 6.14
- place all the files in a directory called ‘drupal’
Simple, fast, painless.
Step Two: Installing Modules via CVS
Every install of Drupal needs CCK and Views. So here are the commands to install each of them. Now you will want to navigate to your drupal/sites/all/modules directory. From there run the following commands.
This will checkout cck version 6.x-2.6 cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:[email protected]:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -r DRUPAL-6--2-6 -d cck contributions/modules/cck
This will checkout views version 6.x-2.8 cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:[email protected]:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -r DRUPAL-6--2-8 -d views contributions/modules/views
I think you get the picture. Continue this as you see fit.
To see the module version in Drupal you will need to also install the CVS Deploy module. Very important
Step 3: Upgrade Time
Core
So after a while you have to upgrade Drupal core you simply navigate to your root drupal directory and run this command.
cvs update -dP -r DRUPAL-6-15That will make all the necessary changes to bring Drupal from 6.14 -> 6.15
Modules
For modules you’ll want to navigate inside the module directory and run the update command, for example for cck you would go to drupal/sites/all/modules/cck and run
cvs update -r DRUPAL-6--2-7 -dPThat will upgrade CCK from 2.6 -> 2.7