Over the last few days the Aegir repositories have seen a lot of action. Most notably is that we will
now be shipping our first release with working, but still experimental support for multiple platforms.
What this means, is that you will be able to manage multiple Drupal code bases with a single install of
the hosting front end.
To simplify the process of creating a new backend system, we have built the <a href='http://drupal.org/project/hostslave>HostSlave install profile.
To turn a new drupal checkout into a viable platform, you install the hostslave platform onto it, then go into the directory
and run the 'provision setup' command, and then add it as a platform node to your hostmaster. You will now be able
to provision sites on the new platform.
The major thing that will differentiate this release from our 0.2 release is that you will not be able to move sites between platforms,
which is also how you upgrade them (ie: move the site from d5.11 to d5.12, or d5.11 to d6.5)
Part of the onus for this feature being added in this release, is that thanks to the magnificent Deadwood project, I have a working Drupal 6 port of provision running on my machine.
I have created a DRUPAL-5 branch for provision, and will push the D6 port into HEAD, as soon as it's stable enough to use.