Creating basic Zope2+Plone buildout on Fedora

I've wanted to post this a long time ago, but forgot. I don't really like to use paster as just installing paster for python2.4 introduce large number of external easy_install packages which are not maintained by RPM, and I dont like that as it feels intrusive.

Furthermore, a minimal directory tree with just what needed to generate a buildout is more desirable as its easier to move around across distros and system and store in VCS rather than a big directory with files that hardcodes to system-specific paths generated from paster.

So, this little guide will go through how to create plone buildout without using paster.

Requirements:

* install compat-python24-{setuptools,devel,imaging,elementtree} from rpmfusion

* easy_install-2.4 zc.buildout

Creating the Buildout

Take the sample baseline config from the end of this post. Strip it down or add more stuff to it as you wish and put it in an empty folder. In this case, lets take for example ~/Devel/mybuildout/. So, the file would be ~/Devel/mybuildout/buildout.cfg

Next, create some base directory tree.

cd ~/Devel/mybuildout/
mkdir products src

Finally, init, and run the buildout

buildout init
./bin/buildout -vvvvv

Done. You are good to go. Start zope by ./bin/instance start and if you are following the config below, zope will be listening at http://localhost:8080 and the manager username is admin with password is zopeadmin

Sample buildout.cfg (modified from the one generated by paster)

# buildout.cfg

[buildout]
parts =
    plone
    zope2
    productdistros
    instance
    zopepy

# Add additional egg download sources here. dist.plone.org contains archives
# of Plone packages.
find-links =
    http://dist.plone.org
    http://download.zope.org/ppix/
    http://download.zope.org/distribution/
    http://effbot.org/downloads

# Add additional eggs here
# elementtree is required by Plone
eggs =
    elementtree

# Reference any eggs you are developing here, one per line
# e.g.: develop = src/my.package
develop =

[plone]
recipe = plone.recipe.plone>=3.1.7,<3.2dev

[zope2]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2install
url = ${plone:zope2-url}

# Use this section to download additional old-style products.
# List any number of URLs for product tarballs under URLs (separate
# with whitespace, or break over several lines, with subsequent lines
# indented). If any archives contain several products inside a top-level
# directory, list the archive file name (i.e. the last part of the URL,
# normally with a .tar.gz suffix or similar) under 'nested-packages'.
# If any archives extract to a product directory with a version suffix, list
# the archive name under 'version-suffix-packages'.
[productdistros]
recipe = plone.recipe.distros
urls =
nested-packages =
version-suffix-packages =

[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
zope2-location = ${zope2:location}
user = root:root
http-address = 8080
#debug-mode = on
#verbose-security = on

# If you want Zope to know about any additional eggs, list them here.
# This should include any development eggs you listed in develop-eggs above,
# e.g. eggs = ${buildout:eggs} ${plone:eggs} my.package
eggs =
    ${buildout:eggs}
    ${plone:eggs}

# If you want to register ZCML slugs for any packages, list them here.
# e.g. zcml = my.package my.other.package
zcml =

products =
    ${buildout:directory}/products
    ${productdistros:location}
    ${plone:products}

[zopepy]
recipe = zc.recipe.egg
eggs = ${instance:eggs}
interpreter = zopepy
extra-paths = ${zope2:location}/lib/python
scripts = zopepy

- Izhar Firdaus -