[Buildbot-devel] Stopping a Build Upon Output

[Grig Gheorghiu]

On 10/8/06, brett <bneely at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/7/06, Roy S. Rapoport <buildbot-devel at ols.inorganic.org> wrote:
> > My builds have update,build, and test phases (in that order).  The tests
> > take a while -- in one case, 4206 seconds.
> >
> > Now, a build may actually conclude with no changes (because nothing has
> > had to be rebuilt).  I would love to find a way to:
> > A) Based on output from a build step, determine this has happened; and
> > B) When it happens, skip doing the tests.  This isn't a 'haltOnFailure'
> > situation -- if it happens, we're all good and we want to say we're
> > successful.
>
> Roy:
> Rather than have buildbot execute your tests directly, have the test
> phase call a script of your own that tests for your precondition, and
> then optionally executes the command to run the tests.
>
> It seems possible to modify the output of each phase on the waterfall
> display (e.g. http://build.webkit.org/), so your output could specify
> whether or not the tests ran and why.  I don't know how to do that
> though.
>
> -b


Here's one way I found to dynamically update the status text for build
steps:

http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2006/05/dynamically-updating-buildbot-status.html

Grig
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