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

[Thomas Fletcher]

Ian Peters-Campbell wrote:
> Hey all,

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> 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=

Congratulations, buildbot is an excellent choice.  Just to let you
know, I'm running it under CentOS 5.2 without any difficulty (or
special configurations).

I don't know that the default build configuration actually does
anything, since you will need to set-up a build factory and
populate it with some build steps.

> 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?

For my initial configurations, I used set-up slaves on the master and
would work through creating the build-steps in small increments doing
exactly the same things that I would do by hand (ie put in a checkout
step .. verify it works, add a configure step .. verify it works etc).

Once it was working locally, it made it easier to dispatch it out to
real slave machines.

Hope this helps,
  Thomas
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Thomas Fletcher
Crank Software Inc.
www.cranksoftware.com