drush

I'd like to start a dialog here about what is slated to be in Drush 4.0, as the HEAD release is 4.0-dev.

I'm begining to investigate Aegir - http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system

I've built a VMWare virtual machine using the instructions at http://git.aegirproject.org/?p=provision.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/INSTALL...

Check it out - http://michaelhofmockel.com/toughts/vmware-aegir-4-alpha-8

I saw someone post to how they run a custom SQL script to put a Drupal site into maintenance mode using Drush's SQL commands, but here's the easier way without any SQL code necessary. Using Drush 3.0 we can turn a site on and off in a split second using the following command:

drush vset site_offline 1

To turn the site back online we run the same command but change the 1 to a 0, like so:

drush vset site_offline 0

*To learn more about the VSET command for Drush just type: drush help vset

How do you use Variable overrides in drushrc.php?

I've got a few ideas from the examples of variables overrides, but I'm curious what uses everyone is using it in dev or production.

I could see using it to set the site title to "DEV" or something, any thing else?

I love drush, but since moving to version 3 recently, I'm having problems with drush up.

I use subversion for version control, and when I try to run update, the first thing it does is to move the entire directory of any module that needs updates to the backups tree. This sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately my .svn files are moved too, giving me subversion errors, and essentially losing my historical changelog.

Everything on my aegir 0.4 alpha 6 installation is running fine. I just have one issue. When i install modules into the hostmaster platform, i have no problems but if i try to install modules to other platforms using drush, i get this error. "Drush command could not be completed"

when i download to the hostmaster platform:

:~/hostmaster-0.4-alpha6$ drush dl acquia_prosper
Project acquia_prosper (6.x-1.0-beta4) downloaded to [success]
/var/aegir/hostmaster-0.4-alpha6/sites/all/themes/acquia_prosper.
:~/hostmaster-0.4-alpha6$ drush dl skinr fusion

This blog post shows off some great new ways Drush 3.0 is better than earlier releases. http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/mar/10/drush-30-more-powerful-flexi...

It's a good read to get ready for updating to the next level of Drush's Drupal power.

I just noticed something that I hadn't seen before in Drush...

Using Version 2 - I downloaded ckeditor and that worked fine. I then installed using drush en ckeditor - and it actually downloaded and install the extra software into the library folder for me. Love it!!!

Then on another site - I installed Ver 3 beta and tried the same - it downloaded ckeditor but when I tried to enable it - all it did was enable and not download and install the extra software into the library folder. I had to do that manually.

Any thoughts?