[Buildbot-devel] mixing baseURL and svnurl in a factory?

[Christian Unger]

thanks marcus,
I'll go for the ShellStep-instead-of-SourceStep solution
seems simple enough

cheers
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cu
christian unger








On 30.04.2009, at 20:29, Marcus Lindblom wrote:

>
>
> Christian Unger wrote:
>> my builder throws an exception when set up like so:
>> f=factory.BuildFactory([
>> 	source.SVN(svnurl=externalDependencyURL', workdir='./build/  
>> Dependency1')
>> 	source.SVN(baseURL=internalURL, defaultBranch='trunk', workdir='./  
>> build/projectUsingDependency1')
>> ])
>> on my ForceBuild page I specify a branch and honestly I would not   
>> expect the first svn-step to freak out on the optional branch  
>> parameter:
>>>  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/buildbot-0.7.10p1-  
>>> py2.5.egg/buildbot/process/buildstep.py", line 710, in _startStep_2
>>>    skip = self.start()
>>>  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/buildbot-0.7.10p1-  
>>> py2.5.egg/buildbot/steps/source.py", line 184, in start
>>>    self.startVC(branch, revision, patch)
>>>  File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/buildbot-0.7.10p1-  
>>> py2.5.egg/buildbot/steps/source.py", line 462, in startVC
>>>    assert not branch # we need baseURL= to use branches
>>> exceptions.AssertionError:
>> I would rather expect the first step to ignore the specified branch.
>
> I think the branch comes from the changesource, so I'm not sure if  
> you can ignore that.
>
> Perhaps a shell-command for the first source-step would be better,  
> as it is independent from the branch you get in the change?
>
>> How are you guys setting this up for multiple branches using the  
>> same  dependency from a different repository url?
>
> Haven't tried that one. Do you expect to trigger build from changes  
> in different repos? That's unfortunately not well supported in the  
> current versions.
>
> I once hacked something together with SVN that made it work anyway,  
> as all repositories where on the same server and thus hade the same  
> "baseurl", even though different "branches" actually where in  
> different repos.
>
> I.e. the branches from checkins where called 'repo1/trunk' or 'repo2/ 
> trunk', which made things work pretty well.
>
> Cheers,
> /Marcus
>