[Buildbot-devel] Handling changes in included files to master.cfg

[Kenneth Lareau]

Recently I refactored the master.cfg file we use at my company as it had
become a bit difficult to follow; part of the solution was to break out
sections of data (machines and what is built on each) and step infor-
mation into separate files, making things far more maintainable as well
as readable.

This has led to one minor issue; when I want to add/remove a builder
from one of the buildslaves, I edit the data (data.py) file.  Previously
with this information in the master.cfg file, I simply did a 'buildbot
sighup .' and the new builder would show up, but with the refactoring
the only way I can seemingly accomplish this is to do a full stop and
restart of buildbot.  Normally this wouldn't be a big issue if it wasn't
for the fact that we have 21 buildslave with 163 builders that take up
to 10 minutes to stop and restart properly, as well as a set of builders
that run nearly 16 hours a day (and really can't be interrupted) which
highly limits when I can perform the restart.

So my question is... is there a way to accomplish what I need to do
without doing a full stop/restart of the master buildbot process, and
without re-merging the new files back into master.cfg?  Or am I pretty
much stuck at this point?


Ken Lareau