The main tutorial screencast, "Turning your current site into a distribution with Profiler Builder", is I guess out of date? It shows a "drush.make" file being created. That does not happen now, at least not in the 7.x version. There are lots of incomplete references to doing something with other files that are created, but they all assume an understanding of something that is not make explicit.

Is this something that you need someone else to write up? I could give that a shot if I could get some hints as to how to actually do what the tutorial's title says.

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btopro CreditAttribution: btopro at Pennsylvania State University commented

you built something and the 7.x version didn't give you a make file? It's supposed to produce a few make files a drupal-org.make and a local.make.example. Updated documentation would be appreciated for sure and readily accepted into the project.

The drupal-org.make's goal is a d.o. compliant distribution that could be submitted back so that you can have it automatically build for others. Not everyone has this ability I realize but it's the ultimate goal. Local.make.example is another make file that you can use to build locally which references the other one. It's not perfect and both leave you hints at things you need to update.

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brad.bulger CreditAttribution: brad.bulger commented

In the video it literally makes a file "drush.make" which you copy into an empty directory and then just run "drush make" and it builds a Drupal distribution.

That does not seem to be how it works anymore. I am absolutely new to all of this and so I'm at a loss as to how to proceed. I do have those two files, drupal-org.make and local.make.example, but if I try to copy them to "drush.make" and run the "drush make" command it doesn't work.

There is some essential background knowledge that seems to be required to make use of what Profiler Builder is creating, but I don't know what that is. What do I need to go understand first to use this module? Do I need to create a distribution using just Profiler, and then this will make more sense as a kind of shortcut tool?

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btopro CreditAttribution: btopro at Pennsylvania State University commented

So profiler builder is for creating install profiles off of a produced site. The distribution / make stuff is bonus, there are other ways of accomplishing this (probably with greater accuracy). To use this. Run through the UI, download and then put what's produced in your drupal site's profiles directory. Now when you install a new site you'll be able to select your installation profile that you produced, which should get you most of the way to completion.