[Buildbot-devel] accessing slave homedir in master?

[Neil Hemingway]

Can you not use a relative path?  I'm in #buildbot on irc.freenode.net at
the moment if it helps

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

> I am trying to run a make, make install, make test etc on the slave....
>
> for make install, i need to specify a dir to install into , which is why I
> wanted a way to obtain the HOME dir of the slave...
>
> I cannot use dir like /opt as my user does not have permissions to write
> into that dir (I could use sudo but then my LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets masked
> which leads to all kinds of grief )
>
> Jimmy
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Neil Hemingway <neil.hemingway at googlemail.com>
> To: Jimmy John <jimmyj_in at yahoo.com>
> Cc: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:21:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] accessing slave homedir in master?
>
> 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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