[Buildbot-devel] accessing slave homedir in master?

[Martin Geisler]

Jimmy John <jimmyj_in at yahoo.com> writes:

> 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....
>
>  argv: ['mkdir', '-p',
>  '$HOME/xxx_buildbot/Slave2_-_SunOS_-_perforce_nightly_tests']

Try specifying the command as a string instead. That will force buildbot
to pass the string to the shell and let it parse it as if you had
executed "sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/...'". The shell will then interpret the
$HOME for you (provided it is set in the environment).

-- 
Martin Geisler

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