[Buildbot-devel] slave exception in 0.5 & CVS

[Brian Warner]

From: Timothee Besset <ttimo at idsoftware.com>
> 
> I am getting this exception with a test slave running on OSX panther.
> 
> Basically the 'dir' key is present, but the value is None. I fixed this in
> my local source with an additional check. Might want to fix this in CVS?

Which version were you running? buildbot.slave.commands wasn't split into a
separate module until post-0.5.0 . What's the cvs version of your
commands.py?

In r1.3, I refactored the CVS and SVN slavecommands into a common base class,
which accepts a ['workdir'] argument as the preferred way to express where
the buildable sources should end up. This should replace the 'dir' argument,
which (I think) was used by the SVN step to express where the SVN checkout
should take place (which is not exactly the same concept).

The new "checkout mode" argument should simplify this stuff a lot, but it
will definitely require a sanity check before the next release to try to deal
with old slaves that don't take the same arguments. I've started to add a
version-reporting mechanism, so the master can find out what version of each
remote command is available (and taylor its 'args' dict to match), so maybe
that will provide the answer.

In short, could you check current CVS and see if the problem is still
present? (and make sure you report the CVS revision of the file, since this
stuff has changed pretty quickly in the last week).

thanks,
 -Brian