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

[Axel Hecht]

http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/43 has a patch that makes buildbot
create the workdir for ShellCommands, that should help, too.

Axel

2007/6/19, Greg Ward <gerg.ward+buildbot at gmail.com>:
> 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
>
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