Basic insight features

[Paul W. Frields]

** Changed to bottom posting to make the thread more readable

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 06:09:32PM +0200, Peter Borsa wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > I installed another testing sandbox and then cloned in a copy of the
> > fedora-insight-features repo, using your
> > "asrob-basic-insight-features" branch.  I have several questions:
> >
> > * I'm confused a bit by the content -- why are there two directories?
> >  Is the content supposed to be different and complementary, where I
> >  enable both modules?  They appear to have the same name in the .info
> >  files and different versions (0.1 vs. 0.2).
> >
> > * Does your module code in the 0.2 Feature really require so many
> >  modules, like Diff and Strongarm, to be installed and enabled?
> >
> > * Once I install and enable everything, should I be seeing some
> >  change in the site blocks from your feature?
> > 
> Hi!
> 
> 1. Well, it's probably my mistake, I tried to follow our Git branching
> and merging section. It seems I made a mistake so if you've any idea,
> share it and I'll fix it.

I got confused because I couldn't tell which directory had the feature
stuff I needed.  Then I discovered one was version 0.1 and the other
was version 0.2.  When you do a git branch, you can just overwrite the
content in the working directory.  You're really working with an
"alternate reality" and you don't need to worry about destroying the
existing branch content.

> 2. Probably yes, I enabled the needful modules and I put only changes
> into a feature. A few modules are in default status. I mean, just
> enabled and there  is no changes.
> 
> 3. Not necessarily because I wanted to test Strongarm, Diff and
> Features Extras modules. Does it work, how it works and can I export
> blocks?!

When I turned on the feature, it showed the two new blocks as
overridden.  I tried several times to select and revert the blocks, so
they would be set according to the feature.  But that didn't work
properly.  I'm not sure if it's something I did or not.  I have both
the 960 and Fedora themes installed and enabled as needed.


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