[Buildbot-devel] N builders per bot ?

[Darin Fisher]

Ah, I see.  Thanks!
-Darin

On 9/26/07, Ben Hearsum <bhearsum at wittydomain.com> wrote:
>
> Darin Fisher wrote:
> > On 9/26/07, *Robert Helmer* <robert at roberthelmer.com
> > <mailto:robert at roberthelmer.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 9/26/07, *Darin Fisher* <darinf at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:darinf at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         I've read through the buildbot manual, and I haven't found an
> >         answer to this question.  Is it possible to have several
> >         builders configured for a single bot?  That is, if I have one
> >         machine with one slave instance running on it, can I arrange to
> >         have the build master command that slave to do N different
> >         builds in series?
> >
> >
> >
> >     Do you want to have a buildslave shared between multiple builders?
> >     You can, but the builders don't have a shared queue so you can get
> >     into the situation where a builder is waiting on a buildslave that's
> >     in use by another builder even though there are idle slaves waiting.
> >
> >     Not sure if I'm understanding though; can you describe what you want
> >     to do?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes, I just want to be able to have a buildslave shared between multiple
> > builders.  I plan on having my builders targetted to a specific
> > buildslave, so I think I'm okay with the queuing issue you describe.
> >
> > So, I can accomplish what I want by simply defining more than one
> > builder to use the same buildslave?  That sounds too easy :-)
> >
> > -Darin
> >
>
> You will probably want a SlaveLock for them. If you don't have one then
> both builders could be building at the same time (which may or may not
> be good).
>
> - Ben
>
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