[Buildbot-devel] No "build" directory if first BuildStep is not a checkout

[Greg Ward]

For various lame reasons, it looks like BuildBot's existing CVS
checkout object won't work for me.  (Mainly because checking out our
tree first means checking out the file that lists the ~180 individual
projects to checkout, then checking out those ~180 projects.  Writing
this is as a standalone script is much preferable to hacking it up
inside master.cfg.)

Unfortunately, it appears that BuildBot with no "official" checkout
step never actually creates the "build" workdir, so running my
checkout script fails -- in particular, the chdir() executed right
before running my script dies, because the workdir that it assumes
exist does not.  Presumably there's an implicit, accidental assumption
that *any* build factory will include an official checkout step.

Is this a known bug?  Or should I prepare a more thorough bug report
with reproduction and all that?

Thanks --

Greg