4 Wizard is the next-generation autoinstall management system. It
5 is currently being developed as an in-house tool for scripts.mit.edu,
6 with a focus on automating the upgrading process using a Git backend.
8 Ultimately, we would like to see Wizard become a general purpose
9 web application package manager, with first class support for a variety
10 of applications under a homogenous interface.
17 Components of Wizard depend on packages and special configuration found
18 on scripts servers. As such, the best way to test Wizard is to SSH
19 into a scripts server and add Wizard to your path::
22 add /mit/scripts/wizard/bin
25 Individual tools that are not scripts-specific, such as ``wizard upgrade``
26 or ``wizard install``, can be run locally with Python 2.6 and a reasonably
34 The canonical source of the Wizard source code is the directory
35 :file:`/mit/scripts/git/wizard.git` on AFS.
37 The live version of the source code lives at :file:`/mit/scripts/wizard`
38 and should be periodically updated as necessary (use the ``pull.sh`` script; you will
39 need scripts-root bits to do so). Documentation lives in
40 :file:`/mit/scripts/web_scripts/home/wizard`; the post-merge
41 hook on this Git repository should perform the appropriate rebuild.
43 Certain commands must be run as root on ``not-backward.mit.edu``
44 due to our restrictive security policies. This machine maintains
45 its own copy of Wizard at :file:`/wizard`. If you make local changes
46 to this copy and would like to push them back to the core repository,
47 you should push to a ``system:scripts-security-upd`` writable
48 directory in your home directory, and then on a trusted machine
49 perform the push to the canonical repository.