The minitage swiss knife, minimerge

Verbose mode

Usable with any other option, recommended to use which each command !

minimerge -v [opts] [args]

Dry run

minimerge [opts] -pv [args]

Ask mode

minimerge will wait for your confirmation before proceeding to anything:

minimerge [opts] -a [args]

Squizzes dependencies

minimerge -j dep package

If you want to install a and a depends on b, c, d respectivly. To squizze b and c and only install d and a:

minimerge -j d a

Build only dependencies

minimerge --only-dependencies package

Update your minimlays

minimerge -s

Install a package and its dependencies

minimerge package

Install a package without dealing with dependencies

That will run only your package installation:

minimerge -N package

Update the package codebase

That will run the update method of what you have used to checkout your package:

minimerge -U package

Run again the installation of a package

That will run the update method of what you have used to checkout your package:

minimerge -u package

Unconditionnally install or reinstall a package

minimerge -R package

Note

All the previous options can be combined.

Update/Rebuid a package and all its dependencies

To install & rebuild a package and all its dependencies:

minimerge -s
minimerge -Uu package

Behaviour notes

• Minitage will never run automaticly again where a buildout has been already run and has left an ‘installed.cfg’ file. You must tell it explicitly to do that like:

  • Just run the buildout:

    minimerge -NUu package
    or
    minimerge -Nu package

  • Remove the .installed.cfg and run buildout:

    minimerge  -NRU package
    minimerge  -NR package

Relaunch an interrupted minitage

minimerge -u mypackage

Relaunch a failed installation exactly where it stopped

minimerge -uj myfailedpackage package