[Buildbot-devel] helped needed with mercurial integration with buildbot via ssh

[Brian Warner]

John Menerick <john at cellspin.net> writes:

> I have looked around on the internet and the buildbot documentation, but 
> I'm not able to ascertain how to grab the source/tree from a mercurial 
> VC via ssh.  There is no url for the trunk, hence not being able to use 
> repourl and baseurl.  Being a python newcomer, I'm not sure how to code 
> the master.cfg to grab the source from the trunk(s).  How do I do this?  
> Any help would greatly be appreciated and acknowledged.

Sorry to respond to this so late, but I think you can just set repourl= to
the same 'ssh://...' string that you'd pass to 'hg clone'. Here's an example:

 f3 = factory.BuildFactory()
 f3.addStep(Mercurial,
            repourl="ssh://user@host/repos/trunk",
            )

If you want to use multiple branches, do this instead:
 f3.addStep(Mercurial,
            baseURL="ssh://user@host/repos/",
            defaultBranch="trunk",
            )

Of course, the buildslave must be able to make an unaided ssh connection to
user at host, probably by having a passphraseless key, or by being run with a
ssh-agent. Most public projects (with world-readable repositories) would use
an http: repourl= instead.

hope that helps,
 -Brian