Drupal without drush is like a burger without cheese. So when, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to ensure that a specific version of drush is installed on a number of systems in a standard location, falling back to your distribution’s package management system is probably a good idea.

Thus, I’ve hacked together a quick script that’ll grab a version of drush and turn it into a noarch binary RPM, suitable for use on RHEL/CentOS (and probably Fedora, for that matter).  read more »

Prerequisites:

We’ll be doing some git-retrieval, meaning we need git installed. Being a sysadmin by trade, I’m naturally lazy, so I’m happy to just pull the git package from EPEL.

As for the rest, we’re doing some compiling - so, it’s necessary to make sure gcc-c++/etc. are available.  read more »