[Buildbot-devel] Sharing SVN checkout between multiple builders

[Patrick Näf]

On Sat, January 12, 2008 14:10, Max Horn wrote:
> is there a good way to share a single SVN checkout dir between
> multiple builders, without copying it?
>
[...]

What about a configuration like this?
* have a special builder that runs first and checks out/updates the sources?
* run all the regular builders after the checkout builder
* use locks.SlaveLock to make sure that builders run sequentially
* create a simple custom scheduler class that makes sure that the sequence
of builders is correct

Below I have added a bit of (untested) sample code that might work in a
simple setup that involves no branches, no special revisions, everything
running strictly sequentally.

Please note: I wrote the original code (from which the sample is adapted)
when I did my first experiments with buildbot 0.7.5, so it's probable that
some changes are necessary to make it work for buildbot 0.7.6.

Cheers
Patrick


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# Extend the Nightly scheduler class so that all builds are triggered
# in the order that builders were specified
class Nightly_Sequential(Nightly):
    def doPeriodicBuild(self):
        # Schedule the next run
        self.setTimer()

        # Trigger builds
        for builderName in self.builderNames:
          bs = buildset.BuildSet([builderName],
                                 SourceStamp(branch=self.branch),
                                 self.reason)
          self.submit(bs)

allBuilderNames = ["builder_checkout", "builder_platform1"]
scheduler_nightly = Nightly_Sequential('scheduler_nightly', builderNames =
allBuilderNames, hour = 3, minute = 0)
c['schedulers'] = []
c['schedulers'].append(scheduler_nightly)


c['builders'] = []

# Define a lock that forces builders to be run sequentially
lock_sequential = locks.SlaveLock("lock_sequential")

# Define the builder that gets the sources
f_checkout = factory.BuildFactory()
f_checkout.addStep(source.SVN, mode = 'update', svnurl =
'http://foo.org/svn/bar/trunk/', alwaysUseLatest = True)
builder_checkout = {'name': "builder_checkout",
      'slavename': "bot1",
      'builddir': "sources",
      'factory': f_checkout,
      'locks' : [lock_sequential],
      }
c['builders'].append(builder_checkout)

# Define builder for platform "platform1"
f_platform1 = factory.BuildFactory()
f_platform1.addStep(shell.Compile, command = ".
../sources/build/env_platform1.sh; make -f ../sources/build/Makefile
target_platform1")
f_platform1.addStep(shell.Compile, command = ".
../sources/build/env_platform1.sh; make -f ../sources/build/Makefile
install_platform1")
builder_platform1 = {'name': "builder_platform1",
      'slavename': "bot1",
      'builddir': "platform1",
      'factory': f_platform1,
      'locks' : [lock_sequential],
      }
c['builders'].append(builder_platform1)