[Buildbot-devel] Help with setting up a buildbot slave
Marcus Lindblom
macke at yar.nu
Tue Feb 3 12:19:00 UTC 2009
Manish wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Marcus Lindblom wrote:
>
>> Manish wrote:
>>
>>> Can someone please share a sample config file that I need to feed
>>> buildbot as far as VC config is involved?
>>>
>> Look at the documentation on BuildFactory (6.3.2 in 0.7.9) and modify
>> accordingly:
>>
>> f = factory.BuildFactory()
>> f.addStep(source.Git(repourl="git://myserver/myrepo", mode="update"))
>> f.addStep(...)
>>
>> b1 = {'name': "",
>> 'slavename': "slave1",
>> 'builddir': "build",
>> 'factory': f,
>> }
>> c['builders'] = [ b1 ]
>>
> This seems to be in the configuration for for buildbot master. I am
> only running a slave. But thanks for the information. This should be
> useful in future.
>
Only running a slave won't do you much good. You need a master too, as
the 'brain' is located there. The slaves just do as they're told, and
sit idle if there are no one there to boss them around.
/Marcus
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