How do I use "drush make" modules with a local module code?

Question

I got to love the workflow "drush make" gives us. I am sure there are others who would want their development code to be put into a make file with it not being ready for drupal.org, for example, deploying a new development testing instance of the site quickly with a bash script or from what I have seen in Aegir.

It seems the current workflow that may suit this would be to utilize a git repository of your development code. However, my development machine is Windows 7, and I would like to use "drush make" in a virtual box with an Ubuntu server instance.

Answer 1

You can set up local domains and local git repositories or tarballs like so:

projects[my_module][type] = "module"
projects[my_module][download][type] = "file"
projects[my_module][download][url] = "http://localhost/my_module.tgz"
projects[my_module][subdir] = "contrib"

Then in your build script you could just recreate the tgz

Answer 2

Drush make also supports file:/// protocol

projects[my_proj][type] = "module"
projects[my_proj][subdir] = "custom"
projects[my_proj][download][type] = "git"
projects[my_proj][download][url] = "file:///path/to/my_proj.git"
projects[my_proj][branch] = "dev"

Use sshfs to mount the repository inside virtualbox. Guide here - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS

Answer 3

You can install make_local, which extends drush make capabilities to also source modules from directory trees. Use it like this:

projects[my_proj][type] = "module"
projects[my_proj][subdir] = "custom"
projects[my_proj][download][type] = "local"
projects[my_proj][download][source] = "../relative/path/to/my_proj_dir"

Advantages over "normal" drush make: (1) In contrast to file:// URLs, you can use relative paths. (2) You do not need to package your module into a .tar.gz beforehand, or to source it from a git repo directory. A normal directory is enough.

The directory with the module could be a git repo of course, but does not have to. (In your case, a Windows 7 host OS directory that is accessible via VirtualBox shared directories would do. No need to install git inside the VM.)

Answer 4

in case you drush-make a distro from a gitweb site via build makefile take care to quote the url as it contains semicolons, my question about that was here on drush make on local gitweb raw url