General discussions

A drush update broke our cherished and fragile provision module on HEAD, which depends so dearly on drush.

So do not update your drush checkout or at least revert this patch otherwise you will not be able to install new sites in your main platform.

If you have updated your drush checkout by mistake, you can revert back to the known working date using the following command:

Provision will be synced with drush once it stabilizes.

This is just a note to say that I've just returned from Drupalcon DC.

It was a pretty amazing conference, and one of my favorites so far (I still have a soft spot for Barcelona).
Like Szeged, the video team at DCDC were very on the ball, and had the videos up the same day as the presentation.
You can catch the Aegir presentation on archive.org.

I was talking with who will potentially be my host provider toady about aegir. I am wondering what would be the best setup to run aegir? The server will be a dedicated ubuntu 8.10 build of which I will have complete control.

I noticed in the install instructions that a debian build is required, which ubuntu is based off of so thats good right? I also can use debian if necessary. Is aegir utilizing some built in virtualization mechanisms from debian? I am just curious how aegir is creating the vertual hosts for all the subsequent sites.