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

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:23:13PM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> 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?

I have a similar problem, since I build from tarballs on systems that
don't have acess to the VC server.

There are two ways around this:
 - write your own Source class (perhaps one that executes your
   standalone script)
 - use a ShellCommand with "workdir='.'"

Dustin

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        Dustin J. Mitchell
        Storage Software Engineer, Zmanda, Inc.
        http://www.zmanda.com/