Thank you for the response. I love that systemmask would allow the root administrator to mark some modules as 'required', preventing a site admin from disabling something security related or such, although it would incur quite a bit of overhead whenever a new module was made available -- to run through each of the sites & hide is as needed. Ideally, I'd be able to download a new organic group related module, place it in a folder (something like sites/all/bundles/og), thus making the new module available to any of my sub-sites that are configured to include 'sites/all/bundles/og' in their module path. On Nov 16, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien wrote:
http://drupal.org/project/systemmask
-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Justin Davis Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:55 PM To: development@drupal.org Subject: [development] Defining additional search paths for modules?
Hello All.
My apologies if this belongs in "support" rather than "development".
I am managing a multi-site drupal installation and would like to be able to offer groups of modules to a sub set of our sites without having to have them installed in each sites/sitename/modules folder.
Basically, there are some advanced and developer modules that my more adept users need but that I would rather not be available to some of our novice site managers.
Ideally, I would be able to define something in the settings.php that told drupal to look in:
sites/all/modules sites/all/modules_advanced sites/sitename/modules
The only possible solution that I've found would be to create a custom module that defined it's own "module_rebuild_cache" (maybe "extra_module_rebuild_cache" or such) that used a slightly modified "drupal_system_listing" that would be able to look outside of "sites/all/modules" and "sites/sitename/modules"
Does this make sense? Has anyone else come across a similar issue?
Thank you kindly, Justin Davis Liberal Arts ITS University of Texas at Austin
-- Justin Davis Liberal Arts ITS Sr. System Analyst justindavis@mail.utexas.edu