[Buildbot-devel] example config for using a tarball for builds?

[Marijn Vriens]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:17 AM, <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:

> How to use a tar file for the builds and not use any change_source (so no
> builds triggered) and builds are manually started? I am reading through
> docs but don't see yet. Thanks


If I understand you correctly, you want to start a build when a tar file is
added in a directory?

I'm not sure if you could poll a directory to see if a file was added
changed from within buildbot. One thing you could do is write a small script
that: checks for a new file and if it detects changes, runs "buildbot
sendchange" command that triggers the build to start.

One thing that comes to mind when starting a build without a version control
system, is that you would have to worry about how to distribute the tars to
the slaves (DownloadFile build step might help)

Regards,
       Marijn Vriens.
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