[Buildbot-devel] minimal install for buildslaves

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Paul Thomas<pthomas at spongelava.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking of using bb-freeze or similar to make a standalone
> because I don't want to modify the target systems any more than I
> absolutely have to (old versions of linux mostly).

You may want to consider using virtualenv, so that you don't have to
modify the underlying system at all.

> So has anyone done this already?
>
> Would anyone be interested if I made it work?

This is the idea behind remsh, actually -- slaves really just need to
know how to perform a dozen or so basic operating-system-related
operations, and can be written with no external dependencies.

Dustin

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