[Buildbot-devel] accessing slave homedir in master?

[Neil Hemingway]

What are you trying to achieve?

Steps execute on the slave with their working directory being the top level
directory of the code checkout.

2008/9/18 Jimmy John <jimmyj_in at yahoo.com>

> Is there any way to run a command and pass as argument the slave's home
> dir...
>
> eg. if i want to run a command to create a dir at the slave home e.g.
>
> f.addStep(shell.ShellCommand(name="creating new dir",
>                              haltOnFailure=True,
>                              command=["mkdir", "-p",
> "$HOME/xxx_buildbot/%s" % dir_builder_name],
>                              workdir="build/splunk/current",
>                              description=["creating new dir"],
>                              descriptionDone=["created new dir"],
>                              timeout=120))
>
>
> does not give me what i want....it creates a dir called '$HOME'...any way i
> can get the environment variables expanded before they  get used....
>
>
>
> mkdir -p $HOME/xxx_buildbot/Slave2_-_SunOS_-_perforce_nightly_tests
>  in dir
> /home/slave/xxxtest/perforce_nightly_tests/run_data/slave2/build/xxx/current
> (timeout 120 secs)
>  watching logfiles {}
>
>  argv: ['mkdir', '-p',
> '$HOME/xxx_buildbot/Slave2_-_SunOS_-_perforce_nightly_tests']
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Jimmy
>
>
>
>
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