Introduction

This recipe satisfies the (perhaps not-so-common) use case of "I want to keep my buildout bootstrap.py file up to date without having to manually download it from svn.zope.org." It also makes it possible to add a bootstrap.py file to a buildout created via buildout init. In other words, with this recipe you can avoid having to do:

% svn cat svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.buildout/trunk/bootstrap/bootstrap.py > bootstrap.py

Just add a new section, then refer to it in your buildout section's parts. E.g.:

[buildout]
parts =
    ...
    bootstrap

[bootstrap]
recipe = collective.recipe.bootstrap

Now whenever you run buildout, this recipe will update your bootstrap.py file.

Contributors

Alex Clark, Author [aclark]

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