Peter
I've just started looking at installing a local copy of Galaxy, and have registered with the mailing list.
First one quick question - is there an easy way to search the Galaxy wiki (or documentation in general)? Perhaps my questions are already discussed if I knew where to look...
Have a look at http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/SiteMap and http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/SiteIndex
I understand that to install Galaxy locally we just clone the mercurial repository (either galaxy-central or galaxy-dist) and then use hg to periodically update this to the latest code. i.e. There are no formal releases with a version number that come as a tar ball or similar.
not really a version number, but I recommend to follow the "News Briefs" http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Features/DevNewsBriefs
Naturally, once I have a copy of Galaxy, I will be making some changes to it - in particular configuration changes, for example to use PostgreSQL.
Is the the workflow described here the recommend approach? http://bytebucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/DevConf2010/galaxy_devconf_... (I found this presentation via a Google search)
Have a look at: http://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Config/ProductionServer
If I understand it, the idea is that we rename tool_conf.xml.sample to tool_conf.xml (and remove it from the .hgignore file) so that any changes made to the sample configuration will be merged into our local configuration?
Alternatively, we could just take a copy and leave tool_conf.xml in the ignore file. We would then have to manually apply any changes made to the tool_conf.xml.sample on a case by case basis.
Also do you recommend I make my own changes on a branch?
Depends on how much do you want to change? For us, adding our own tool is the big thing about Galaxy and we are pretty happy with the default Galaxy distro. Of course we have a few customizations, but they are added very quickly to a new 'release' by hand. Regards, Hans
Thanks,
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