Show how easy it is to run from checkout.

YAMLSyntax.html

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ languages:
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

api.html

@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ a conf.d file appropriately or something similar.  Who knows.</p>
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

examples.html

@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ a simplified syntax for this.</p>
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

faq.html

@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ tasks – whether for a QA sytem, build system, or anything you can think of
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

genindex.html

@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

gettingstarted.html

@@ -130,10 +130,11 @@ s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
   <span class="localtoc"><ul>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Downloads &amp; Getting Started</a><ul>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#developer-requirements">Developer Requirements</a></li>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#getting-ansible">Getting Ansible</a><ul>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#running-from-checkout">Running From Checkout</a></li>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#make-install">Make Install</a></li>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#via-rpm">Via RPM</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tagged-releases">Tagged Releases</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#your-first-commands">Your first commands</a></li>
@@ -184,34 +185,37 @@ that you&#8217;ll be talking to the other machines from), you will need:</p>
 </ul>
 <p>On the managed nodes, to use templating, you will need:</p>
 <ul class="simple">
-<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python-jinja2</span></tt> (you can install this with ansible)</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="developer-requirements">
-<h2>Developer Requirements<a class="headerlink" href="#developer-requirements" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
-<p>For developers, you may wish to have:</p>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">asciidoc</span></tt> (for rebuilding manpage files)</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python-sphinx</span></tt> (for rebuilding content for the ansible.github.com docs project only)</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python-jinja2</span></tt> (you can easily install this using ansible)</li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="getting-ansible">
 <h2>Getting Ansible<a class="headerlink" href="#getting-ansible" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
-<p>Tagged releases are available as tar.gz files from the Ansible github
-project page:</p>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/downloads">Ansible/downloads</a></li>
-</ul>
-<p>As the project is still pretty new, you will probably just want to clone
-the git checkout instead, so you can keep up with all of the latest features,
-and also contribute easily back to the project (if you want).
-Instructions for installing from source are below.</p>
+<p>As the project is still pretty new, you will probably want to clone
+the git checkout, so you can keep up with all of the latest features,
+and also contribute easily back to the project (if you want).</p>
+<p>Instructions for installing from source are below.</p>
 <p>You may also wish to follow the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/">Github project</a> if
 you have a github account.  This is also where we keep the issue tracker for sharing
 bugs or feature ideas.</p>
+<div class="section" id="running-from-checkout">
+<h3>Running From Checkout<a class="headerlink" href="#running-from-checkout" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
+<p>Ansible is trivially easy to run from a checkout, root permissions are not required
+to use it:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><pre>$ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
+$ cd ./ansible
+$ source ./hacking/env-setup
+$ cat "127.0.0.1" &gt; ~/ansible_hosts
+$ export ANSIBLE_HOSTS=~/ansible_hosts
+$ ansible all -m ping</pre>
+</div>
+<p>The <cite>env-setup</cite> script modifies your <cite>PATH</cite>, <cite>PYTHONPATH</cite>, and <cite>ANSIBLE_LIBRARY</cite> environment variables
+so you can use Ansible from the checkout directory.  You have full access to everything
+Ansible can do this way, with no limitations.  If you do not set ANSIBLE_HOSTS, the default host
+file /etc/ansible/hosts will be used.</p>
+</div>
 <div class="section" id="make-install">
 <h3>Make Install<a class="headerlink" href="#make-install" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
-<p>You can install Ansible using &#8220;make install&#8221;.  This is done through python distutils:</p>
+<p>You can install Ansible using &#8220;make install&#8221;.  This is done through <cite>python-distutils</cite>:</p>
 <div class="highlight-python"><pre>$ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
 $ cd ./ansible
 $ sudo make install</pre>
@@ -220,16 +224,26 @@ $ sudo make install</pre>
 <div class="section" id="via-rpm">
 <h3>Via RPM<a class="headerlink" href="#via-rpm" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
 <p>In the near future, pre-built RPMs will be available through your
-distribution. Until that time you can use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">rpm</span></tt> command:</p>
+distribution. Until that time, you can use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">rpm</span></tt> command:</p>
 <div class="highlight-python"><pre>$ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
 $ cd ./ansible
 $ make rpm
 $ sudo rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ansible-*.noarch.rpm</pre>
 </div>
-<p>If you are tracking the upstream source (i.e. git), the RPM revision may not be
+<p>Note that if you are tracking the upstream source (i.e. git), the RPM revision may not be
 bumped with every source code change.  To get around this, you can use
 rpm <cite>-Uvh</cite> with <cite>&#8211;force</cite> when RPM tells you the package is still at the
-same version.</p>
+same version.  This is perfectly safe to do.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="tagged-releases">
+<h3>Tagged Releases<a class="headerlink" href="#tagged-releases" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
+<p>Tagged releases are available as tar.gz files from the Ansible github
+project page:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/downloads">Ansible/downloads</a></li>
+</ul>
+<p>At this point in Ansible&#8217;s development, running or building from checkout is preferred
+if you want access to all of the latest modules and improvements.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="your-first-commands">
@@ -278,7 +292,7 @@ you already have a working infrastructure!</p>
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

index.html

@@ -223,10 +223,11 @@ you with questions about Ansible.</p>
 <ul>
 <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html">Downloads &amp; Getting Started</a><ul>
 <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
-<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#developer-requirements">Developer Requirements</a></li>
 <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#getting-ansible">Getting Ansible</a><ul>
+<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#running-from-checkout">Running From Checkout</a></li>
 <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#make-install">Make Install</a></li>
 <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#via-rpm">Via RPM</a></li>
+<li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#tagged-releases">Tagged Releases</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="gettingstarted.html#your-first-commands">Your first commands</a></li>
@@ -356,7 +357,7 @@ Puppet Labs, and rPath.  Reach Michael by email <a class="reference external" hr
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

man.html

@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ examples of these tools in use.</p>
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

man/ansible-playbook.1.html

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible-playbook</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible-playbook" lang="en"><a id="id407749"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook &lt;filename.yml&gt; … [options]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment system.  Ansible-playbook is the tool
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible-playbook</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible-playbook" lang="en"><a id="id473422"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible-playbook — run an ansible playbook</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible-playbook &lt;filename.yml&gt; … [options]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible playbooks</strong></span> are a configuration and multinode deployment system.  Ansible-playbook is the tool
 used to run them.   See the project home page (link below) for more information.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="ARGUMENTS"><a id="_arguments"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
 <span class="strong"><strong>filename.yml</strong></span>
 </span></dt><dd>

man/ansible.1.html

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible" lang="en"><a id="id544385"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible &lt;host-pattern&gt; [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ansible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="refentry" title="ansible" lang="en"><a id="id572067"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>ansible — run a command somewhere else</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><a id="_synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><p>ansible &lt;host-pattern&gt; [-f forks] [-m module_name] [-a args]</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a id="_description"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><span class="strong"><strong>Ansible</strong></span> is an extra-simple tool/framework/API for doing 'remote things' over
 SSH.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="ARGUMENTS"><a id="_arguments"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">
 <span class="strong"><strong>host-pattern</strong></span>
 </span></dt><dd>

moduledev.html

@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ Stop by the mailing list to inquire about requirements.</p>
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

modules.html

@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ various configuration attributes.  Values include ‘installed’, &#821
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

patterns.html

@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ wildcards:</p>
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

playbooks.html

@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ Let&#8217;s run a playbook using a parallelism level of 10:</p>
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>

rst/gettingstarted.rst

@@ -25,39 +25,44 @@ If you are running less than Python 2.6, you will also need:
 
 On the managed nodes, to use templating, you will need:
 
-* ``python-jinja2`` (you can install this with ansible)
-
-Developer Requirements
-``````````````````````
-
-For developers, you may wish to have:
-
-* ``asciidoc`` (for rebuilding manpage files)
-* ``python-sphinx`` (for rebuilding content for the ansible.github.com docs project only)
-
+* ``python-jinja2`` (you can easily install this using ansible)
 
 Getting Ansible
 ```````````````
 
-Tagged releases are available as tar.gz files from the Ansible github
-project page:
-
-* `Ansible/downloads <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/downloads>`_
-
-As the project is still pretty new, you will probably just want to clone
-the git checkout instead, so you can keep up with all of the latest features,
+As the project is still pretty new, you will probably want to clone
+the git checkout, so you can keep up with all of the latest features,
 and also contribute easily back to the project (if you want).  
+
 Instructions for installing from source are below.
 
 You may also wish to follow the `Github project <https://github.com/ansible/>`_ if
 you have a github account.  This is also where we keep the issue tracker for sharing
 bugs or feature ideas.
 
+Running From Checkout
++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+Ansible is trivially easy to run from a checkout, root permissions are not required
+to use it::
+
+    $ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
+    $ cd ./ansible
+    $ source ./hacking/env-setup
+    $ cat "127.0.0.1" > ~/ansible_hosts
+    $ export ANSIBLE_HOSTS=~/ansible_hosts
+    $ ansible all -m ping
+
+The `env-setup` script modifies your `PATH`, `PYTHONPATH`, and `ANSIBLE_LIBRARY` environment variables
+so you can use Ansible from the checkout directory.  You have full access to everything
+Ansible can do this way, with no limitations.  If you do not set ANSIBLE_HOSTS, the default host
+file /etc/ansible/hosts will be used.
+
 
 Make Install
 ++++++++++++
 
-You can install Ansible using "make install".  This is done through python distutils::
+You can install Ansible using "make install".  This is done through `python-distutils`::
 
     $ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
     $ cd ./ansible
@@ -68,17 +73,30 @@ Via RPM
 +++++++
 
 In the near future, pre-built RPMs will be available through your
-distribution. Until that time you can use the ``make rpm`` command::
+distribution. Until that time, you can use the ``make rpm`` command::
 
     $ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
     $ cd ./ansible
     $ make rpm
     $ sudo rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ansible-*.noarch.rpm
 
-If you are tracking the upstream source (i.e. git), the RPM revision may not be 
+Note that if you are tracking the upstream source (i.e. git), the RPM revision may not be 
 bumped with every source code change.  To get around this, you can use
 rpm `-Uvh` with `--force` when RPM tells you the package is still at the
-same version.
+same version.  This is perfectly safe to do.
+
+
+Tagged Releases
++++++++++++++++
+
+Tagged releases are available as tar.gz files from the Ansible github
+project page:
+
+* `Ansible/downloads <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/downloads>`_
+
+At this point in Ansible's development, running or building from checkout is preferred
+if you want access to all of the latest modules and improvements.
+
 
 Your first commands
 ```````````````````

search.html

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
     <p class="pull-right"><a href="#">Back to top</a></p>
     <p>
         &copy; Copyright 2012 Michael DeHaan.<br/>
-      Last updated on Mar 17, 2012.<br/>
+      Last updated on Mar 18, 2012.<br/>
       Created using <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/">Sphinx</a> 1.0.8.<br/>
     </p>
   </div>