I am trying to grasp a bit more of buildout with this tutorial, but unlike a tutorial, it seems like a cut and paste of presentation slides. I don\'t have a really clear idea of
The most useful resource that I found so far are the videos from pycon 2009 on Setuptools, Distutils and Buildout.
Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python - Part 1
Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python - Part 2
Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python - Part 3
Check it out.