[Buildbot-devel] Hello to the list and checkconfig question

[Ian Peters-Campbell]

Hey all,

First hello to all of you.  I'm brand new to Buildbot but not to Python.  I
work at a mobile software company and I've been given some time to put
together an automated build system for our client builds.  Buildbot seems
like it has a good feature-set and I'm naturally biased toward Python, so
I'm working on my first Buildbot install.  I'm sure I will have lots of
questions over the next several weeks and I hope my noobity won't be too
annoying.  With a bit of luck my company can someday be listed on the
Successes page :)

The current situation is that I have Buildbot installed on a CentOS server
and working at least to the point that I can get the version number out of
it and have created a buildmaster under its own account on the machine.  I
wanted to test the default configuration file to make sure I had a good
starting point but I get the following error (stack trace removed)

File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/buildbot/steps/python_twisted.py",
line 392, in __init__

    raise ValueError("Must either set testChanges= or provide tests=")

ValueError: Must either set testChanges= or provide tests=

Looking for the error on Google and in the documentation I have only found
source code listings, which makes me think that other people do not have
this problem.  Is this an expected issue until I have some minimal
configuration above and beyond the defaults provided?  Part of my confusion
is that I don't see any reference to tests or testChanges in the config
file.

As sort of an expansion to that question, does anyone have advice regarding
a sane, step-wise setup for BUildbot?  Now that I have a build master sort
of set up is my next step to get a slave set up on the machine with the ARM
compiler, or is there some set of configuration and testing that can be
performed purely within the buildmaster before setting up slaves?

Thanks all in advance for your help and patience, I'm really looking forward
to being able to present a working Buildbot system to the company a few
weeks down the line :)

Ian
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