[Buildbot-devel] Please Help configuring BuildBot

[Marcus Lindblom]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> As an alternative - can I build from source.tar.gz ?
> Just to make packages for different distros (buildslaves) ?

Sure, but then you need to setup steps for making that gz and also to 
download and unzip it. It is a bit of a bother, but doable.

  * There are buildsteps for downloading files from master to slave.
  * Additionally, fetch the tarball via http. (Using wget?)

Related to your previous mail, the git-sourcestep is in
buildbot/slave/commands.py, not in contrib. (That is only the repository 
hook, IIUC).

Cheers,
/Marcus