[Buildbot-devel] Managing many buildbots

[Einar Karttunen]

On 29.08 10:20, Alexander Lorenz wrote:
> but if you want to build/test on five different environments, there is 
> no clean way at the moment. :s

yes, five different OS+architecture combinations.

> i can understand you well, because i am in a similar situation and there 
> are also others here who have proposed ideas.
> up to now you can only avoid a 100 column waterfall by using some "dirty 
> tricks" .
> 
> see the "aggregate waterfall view?" thread in this mailing group 
> concerning both issues.

I created a mess of shell scripts and in the end I have scripts
that:

1) create buildslave user + and setup the environment
2) create missing buildslaves on a build-host
3) create missing buildmasters on the master host

This has made things much simpler.

The buildmasters share one global configuration file and their
own configuration is ~5 lines of including and 
customizing the global config.

- Einar Karttunen