[Buildbot-devel] Building source tarballs from git and then building those in dependent builders?

[James Youngman]

I have a couple of builders working fine on a couple of slaves.   All
seems well so far.

However, I have a bunch of other machines which are quite bare
installations of various operating systems.  I want to double check
that my project's source distribution buils OK on them.

I don't want to install a whole bunch of software (the git client,
autoconf, and so on) on them so that they can build from the git
sources, because I want at least some of the builders to reproduce the
experience of people downloading the source distribution.   I'd like
this to happen:


1. A builder, running on one of the existing slaves, does a normal
full build and issues "make dist".

2. If successful, this results in the creation of a file,
findutils-X.Y.ZZ-git.tar.gz.

3. The success of this process results in that file being made
available to a different, bare-bones, slave.   It extracts the source
tarball (maybe it got it from NFS, maybe the file was instead
transferred through the master).  Then the slave builds from the
extracted tarball.


How can I do this?

I'm not sure about the precise terminology here with respect to
"dependent builders" and "triggered builders" but my main point is
that I would like some of the builders on the slaves to be building
from the a tarball, not the source repo.  How can I do this?


James.