[arch-general] Drupal Packages

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:59 AM, David Campbell <dcampbell24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all, I am wondering if anyone would be interested in working
> with me to create a repository containing the most commonly used
> Drupal modules, themes, and installation profiles. I feel like a major
> lacking of Drupal is that it does not have a good way for managing its
> packages. Drush is a start, but being able to set up and maintain
> sites with something like pacman would be so much more powerful and
> useful. I also know there are some major hosting companies such as
> slicehost which support Arch servers/VPS which might be pleased to
> have good package manangement for a major CMS. The packages might also
> help to enforce good file structure practices etc.. Let me know what
> you think or if you know anyone who might be interested in working on
> the project (also, if I should be posting this somewhere else).
>
> -David Campbell

Have you thought about using a DVCS like Git to manage your Drupal
site(s)? I've been using the method detailed at
http://www.versioncontrolblog.com/2007/08/02/upgrading-drupal-52-with-git/
to manage a Drupal site for close to 10 months now. It has proven to
be quite effective as it keeps track of and automatically merges any
modifications you might have done to core and/or modules (which is
frowned upon, but sometimes necessary; applying patches for recently
discovered bugs, for example).