[Buildbot-devel] splitting master.cfg

[Didier Trosset]

Vikki Finnan wrote:
> I am working with a rather complicated build setup and my master.cfg
> is rather long. If I add a module and run an import command (import
> buildsteps), the setup will work fine for the first time.
> 
> If I make changes to the buildsteps.py file and run buildbot reconfig,
> everything will work fine, but the changes that I made were not
> reflected.
> 
> I can get this to work if I to something like:
> 
> import buildsteps
> reload(buildsteps)
> from buildsteps import *
> 
> but this causes all the builders to say 'config updated' and still
> seems to sometimes have the problem of changes not being reflected.
> 
> What is happening? Is there a better way to split the master.cfg into
> separate files?

Did you try to use execfile() instead of import? I am not proficient enough 
in Python to know if it will help, but maybe worth a try.

Didier

> 
> Thanks,
> Vikki
> 
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Didier Trosset-Moreau
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