[Buildbot-devel] Re: buildbot and sourceforge compile farm

[Olly Betts]

On 2006-05-04, John Pye wrote:
> I have a question: is it possible to set up a buildbot on the
> sourceforge compile farm? I understand they don't allow outgoing
> connections from there, so I figure it might not be an option.
>
> Has anyone on the list conquered this problem?

The technique I pondered about here should be feasible, though I still
haven't found the time to actually make the switch from tinderbox to
buildbot sadly:

http://sf.net/search/?type_of_search=pervasive&exact=1&group_id=73177&words=slaves+sourceforge+compile+farm

If you get it to work, I'd love to hear any tips, and see any custom
code required!

One quick tip which isn't in the compilefarm docs (or wasn't when I last
looked) is that to get sane build times and to avoid running out of
quota you need to build in /tmp or /var/tmp on the compile farm machines
rather than in the NFS mounted home directory.  Sadly which is better
varies between the machines, but usually /var/tmp is the better choice
IIRC.

Cheers,
    Olly