Question

Is there a drush command to update a Feature when you add a new module dependency? I know you can use the FU command to update changes to already-added views, content types, etc… but I’m wondering about adding new views, content types, and module dependencies. So far the only way I’ve found to incorporate those changes into a Feature is to re-download it.

Thankfully Git has made that process a lot easier than it used to be with SVN.

Answer 1

If you are comfortable editing your .info file, the format Features uses to identify which components should be exported is quite simple. For example:

  features[node][] = "node_type"
  features[view][] = "view_name"
  features[variable][] = "variable_name"

By adding any of these to your .info file and running drush fu, the resulting module will include those specified components if they were not previou.sly exported. Features will take care of adding any other bits and pieces that it thinks should be there.

Module dependencies for features work the same as module dependencies for any module in Drupal– just add dependencies[] = "module_name" to your feature’s .info file.

This is the primary way I update features, and with a couple more steps you can create and enable a blank module and “featurize” it by adding features components to your .info file in this way.

A drush command such as drush features-add-component featurename --node=new_type could be created, but I don’t believe there is a published command that does that. There are several drush scripts with expanded features administration functionality scattered around the Features issues queues and a few projects under development. The main advantage of a command like this would be a command-line version of the Features UI–showing the features-builder which components are available for export. That utility is somewhat limited if you are comfortable hand-editing the .info file.