I've taken a different approach, as said, not up to drupal distro standards, but I create and configure skel databases, and use scripts to copy sites, and run sql queries, including modifying some site variables. Adding a few scripted svn update commands to some of these scripts might accomplish what you're looking for or might not. The code's not pretty, so use at your own risk. http://www2.evergreen.edu/dave/node/72 They only work on linux environments. Dave -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Mike Cantelon Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:43 PM To: development@drupal.org Subject: [development] Any Drupal Tools for Automating Staging Site Creation? Hi all, Has anyone created any tools for automating site setup? Basically what I'm doing now each night via a script is: 1) Cloning my production site 2) Replacing certain directories with versions checked out from Subversion 3) Running a series of Linux commands and SQL queries to set up modules that are in development but have not been deployed to production Whenever I start development on a new module I have to add to my mirroring script to automate Drupal setup. I can write some PHP functions to encapsulate this, but maybe something already exists? Cheers, Mike