install profile

Hello,

I want to add my own installation profile in a distribution proposed in octopus.

My quesion is:

Do I need to put in "myprofile/modules" all modules that are used in my profile or is that they can be downloaded on demand via a myprofile.make file ?

In this case, when does the myprofile.make will be executed ? :

• when creating a new site on the platform ?
• or when the platform is verified?

Thank you for your help.

Stéphane.

First of all, kudos to the IQSS Team at Harvard for such an amazing Product!
My concern: I read somewhere on the internets (don't remember where) that an install profile for university departments is in the making and that it will probably be released in autumn 2010. Is any of this correct?

I ask, because I'm evaluating OpenScholar for the website of a university affiliated research institute. The current install profiles don't seem to lend themselves well to such an endeavour because of all the vsite stuff that comes along with it.

I see the latest release of Install Profile API is from 2009, the issue queue is frozen for months...
Is the module deprecated? If it is, indeed, has it been deprecated in favor of something else?

Hello, all,

We have an alpha release ready of VoiceBox, our Knight Drupal Initiative project -

The project is a community media/feed aggregator/news space/conversation space. A high level run down of the featureset includes:

• Customizable user profiles;
• Discussions with embedded images, audio, and video;
• Publishing pictures, audio, and video via mobile devices and/or email;
• Content aggregation via rss;

I've got a custom install profile inside my platform folder (drupal/profiles/custom_profile/custom_profile.profile). When I go to the Aegir add site form I see a listing of install profiles from other platforms I have, including the Default drupal one, but I don't see my custom profile. Is there something special I need to do with my install profile to expose it to Aegir? I've re-verified the platform but this didn't help.

Thanks,
-Tim

I have a new install profile that I use and want to move my old (acquia install profile) sites over to this new platform. I got on IRC and asked and got this answer:

edit your new install profile
and add 'old_short_name' = 'acquia'
or carbon, or whatever
that will allow you to migrate acquia sites to it

GREAT! except I dont know where to stick old_short_name' = 'acquia'. I tried putting it in hook_profile_details, re-verifying my platform, but I still couldn't migrate acquia sites to it.

In 2009, LA Drupal gave our DrupalCamp L.A. site code away to the world for other groups to adopt that would hopefully help spark new DrupalCamps across the world. At the time of its release we could only provide a ZIP file with the database dump and a folder of modules. Handfuls of user groups adopted our code and started to give us feedback. Up until now there has been no official documentation, instructions, or anything that would help get a new DrupalCamp site up painlessly. That is about to change.

Something I always wanted to do but never found the time for is creating an install profile for Drupal that would install a ready-to-go forum that is similar to what you get if you install a forum software like PHPBB. I found that many webmasters use PHPBB just because it is easy to set up, even if they know that they want to integrate more functionality that is difficult/impossible to realize with a dedicated forum software.

Hi all.
I am looking for a standardized way to add contents such as any type of nodes into an installation profile.
Suppose you wanna build an instal profile that creates some pages and a contact form, you have to add this pages as arrays and use a function like node_save to add them into the database. This make the profile file really long or you have to split it into more than one file (but it seems there's no standard way to manage them).

Hey all,

I've been using Aegir since 4.0 alpha2 came out and have a couple issues with install profiles.

I first noticed came across this error when trying to create a quick install profile using http://www.lullabot.com/articles/5-step-drupal-distributions .

Now I get basically the same errors when using tattler http://tattlerapp.com/download . It verify's alright but bombs out on the install.

I tired renaming the tattler.profile file to tattler_install.profile (like suggested in the FAQ) and renamed the profile folder as well. (I also changed anything in the profile file that I though might have needed to be change) and it still does work.