[Buildbot-devel] CVS Limitations and other setup issues

[Bailey, Darragh]

> You can always fall back to the generic shell command, where you can
do
> anything you like.

Had some problems getting that to work, need to do some more reading of
the documentation me thinks :)


> > 2) Also should you wish to automatically setup to use cvs over ssh
or
> > via another remote shell, you can't modify the environment variables
> > used for the cvs commands on the slaves from the master. Part is
that
> 
> The generic solution to this (at a Posix system) is to prefix the
shell
> command with an assignment of the environment variable you want to
change,
> ie
> 
> CVS_RSH=ssh cvs export etc/etc
> 
> sets the environment var CVS_RSH to ssh, and then executes the cvs
command
> (sorry for the bad cvs example, I haven't used it for a over a year,
so my
> cvs
> syntax is a bit rusty).

Well aware of that method, but I had noticed that with some of the shell
commands that they contained an env property that by modifying it you
could alter the environment settings that the commands run used. Suspect
that there is no way to do the same via the CVS class without
modifications.

> You can construct such a line in a master by using the build
properties
> (http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/manual-0.7.4.html#Build-Properties).

Thanks for the pointer, will do some more reading.

--
Regards,
Darragh Bailey

HPC Systems Software Engineer
Hewlett Packard Galway Ltd.
+353 91 75-4674