Getting Started

To get started with Drupdates you will need to install the script using the install instructions. Once installed simply run the drupdates command, this will:

• Build the $HOME/.drupdates folder, note: there is a period before the word "drupdates"
• Copy a sample settings.yaml file to $HOME/.drupdates

For example (this is what you will have): $HOME/.drupdates/settings.yaml

After the first run you will need to configure the settings using a local settings file.

The local settings file is a YAML file that is used to tell Drupdates how to build out the various Drupal sites you are charged with maintaining.

Using a POSIX system the commands would look something like this (assuming your editor is vim)

$vim ~/.drupdates/settings.yaml

This local settings file will override any settings that ship with Drupdates, the order of precedence for settings can be found on the settings documentation page.

Sample Settings files can be found on the settings documentation page

Once you have a local settings file you will be able to run Drupdates simply by typing:

$drupdates

If you have downloaded the source code, go to the drupdates folder (where setup.py is)

(sudo) python setup.py install