first pass tweaks for local dev prefs and foibles

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+.idea
+venv
+.vscode
+laconic-so
+laconic_stack_orchestrator.egg-info
+__pycache__

README.md

@@ -15,11 +15,21 @@ Ensure that the following are already installed:
    $ python3 --version
    Python 3.8.10
    ```
-1. Docker (Install a current version from dockerco, don't use the version from any Linux distro)
+2. Docker (Install a current version from dockerco, don't use the version from any Linux distro)
    ```
    $ docker --version
    Docker version 20.10.17, build 100c701
    ```
+3. If installed from regular package repository, be aware that the compose plugin may need to be installed, as well.
+   ```
+   DOCKER_CONFIG=${DOCKER_CONFIG:-$HOME/.docker}
+   mkdir -p $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins
+   curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.11.2/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins/docker-compose
+   chmod +x ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
+   
+   # see https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/linux/#install-the-plugin-manually for further details
+   # or to install for all users.
+   ```
 #### Install
 1. Clone this repository:
    ```

app/build_containers.py

@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ def command(ctx, include, exclude):
     quiet = ctx.obj.quiet
     verbose = ctx.obj.verbose
     dry_run = ctx.obj.dry_run
+    local_stack = ctx.obj.local_stack
 
+    if local_stack:
+        dev_root_path = default=os.getcwd()[0:os.getcwd().rindex("stack-orchestrator")])
+        print(f'Local stack dev_root_path (CERC_REPO_BASE_DIR) overridden to: {dev_root_path}')
+    else:
         dev_root_path = os.path.expanduser(config("CERC_REPO_BASE_DIR", default="~/cerc"))
 
     if not quiet:

compose/docker-compose-go-ethereum-foundry.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ services:
       DB_HOST: ipld-eth-db
       DB_PORT: 5432
       DB_PASSWORD: password
-      DB_WRITE: true
+      DB_WRITE: "true"
       DB_TYPE: postgres
       DB_DRIVER: sqlx
       DB_WAIT_FOR_SYNC: "true"