diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bb37f0bc..d20706f8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+.omv/
+.ssh/
+.vagrant/
 mgmt-documentation.pdf
 old/
 tmp/
diff --git a/misc/make-deps.sh b/misc/make-deps.sh
index bb9ae090..c211d8d3 100755
--- a/misc/make-deps.sh
+++ b/misc/make-deps.sh
@@ -27,4 +27,16 @@ fi
 
 echo "gopath is: $GOPATH"
 
+# some versions of golang apparently require this to run go get :(
+if ! env | grep -q '^GOBIN='; then
+	export GOBIN="${GOPATH}bin/"
+	mkdir "$GOBIN"
+	if ! grep -q '^export GOBIN=' ~/.bashrc; then
+		echo 'export GOBIN="${GOPATH}bin/"' >> ~/.bashrc
+	fi
+	echo "setting go bin to: $GOBIN"
+fi
+
+echo "gobin is: $GOBIN"
+
 go get ./...	# get all the go dependencies
diff --git a/omv.yaml b/omv.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..10dfc287
--- /dev/null
+++ b/omv.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+:domain: example.com
+:network: 192.168.123.0/24
+:image: centos-7.1
+:cpus: ''
+:memory: ''
+:disks: 0
+:disksize: 40G
+:boxurlprefix: ''
+:sync: rsync
+:syncdir: mgmt/
+:syncsrc: "../"
+:folder: ".omv"
+:extern: []
+:cd: "-"
+:puppet: false
+:classes: []
+:shell:
+- cd /vagrant/mgmt/ && make deps
+:docker: false
+:kubernetes: false
+:ansible: []
+:playbook: []
+:ansible_extras: {}
+:cachier: false
+:vms: []
+:namespace: omv
+:count: 1
+:username: ''
+:password: ''
+:poolid: true
+:repos: []
+:update: false
+:reboot: false
+:unsafe: false
+:nested: false
+:comment: ''
+:reallyrm: false