[Buildbot-devel] 'try' for multiple repos

[Benoît Allard]

Marc-Antoine Ruel wrote:
> 
> 2010/4/7 Uma Sridharan <uma285 at gmail.com <mailto:uma285 at gmail.com>>
> 
>     On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Marc-Antoine Ruel
>     <maruel at chromium.org <mailto:maruel at chromium.org>> wrote:
> 
>         Le 7 avril 2010 14:00, Uma Sridharan <uma285 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:uma285 at gmail.com>> a écrit :
> 
>             2010/4/7 Benoît Allard <benoit at aeteurope.nl
>             <mailto:benoit at aeteurope.nl>>
> 
>                 Uma Sridharan wrote:
> 
>                     Hi all,
>                      I am trying to setup Buildbot for android builds
>                     that deals with multiple repositories. Could anyone
>                     tell me if there exists a way by which I can use
>                     'try' command to capture changes in multiple
>                     repositories? Right now it works fine if I made
>                     changes to a single repository and called the 'try'
>                     command.
>                      
> 
> 
>                 The quick answer is that buildbot has no support yet for
>                 multiple repositories inside one project. There are way
>                 to make it works, but you already found a corner case,
>                 and some more are to be found I guess.
> 
>                 This is for sure a planned improvement.
> 
>                 Regards,
>                 Benoit
> 
> 
>             It still seems to be alright to build a repo SCM extension
>             and use it instead of git. But it looks harder to extend
>             'try' to gather patches from these multiple repositories.
> 
> 
>         We use a 3-steps update mechanism for gclient-based try:
> 
>         1) Sync to specified master revision/hash
>         2) Apply the patch
>         3) Sync again in case a DEPS file has been modified, the
>         equivalent of repo's manifest.
> 
>         It works fine.
> 
>     How do you get the patch information for every repository and pass
>     it on to the master using the existing 'try'? Try works well with
>     one repository.
> 
> The tool generates one big patch file from the various checkouts.

So if I get it correctly, for buildbot it looks like there is only one 
big repository, and then, the VCS substitute you use cares about 
gathering the right repositories in the right state ?

I didn't knew such a solution exists, doesn't looks too bad. It's maybe 
an option to implement such something as a Source step inside buildbot. 
I need to think about it.

Regards
Benoit

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