[Buildbot-devel] Fwd: buildbot as a service on windows 7

[Marcus Lindblom]

On 2010-03-29 10:53, Gav... wrote:
>
> From: tom fogal [mailto:tfogal at sci.utah.edu]
>>
>> Welp, apologies for all the spam.  I finally figured this out.
>>
>> I was trying to add a string "Parameters" with a value of my directory,
>> under "Buildbot".  Rather, there is a *key* under "Buildbot" named
>> "Parameters", and one needs to create a new string under "Parameters",
>> named "directories", and fill it with the list of slave directories you
>> care about.  Whew.
>>
>> It would be great if creating the service did this automagically;
>> actually, I'm betting it does, but due to whatever quirk, I didn't
>> get "Parameters".  Probably it was just a permissions issue.  Maybe
>> creating the service could automatically give "Full control" to the
>> user given as the "--user" argument to buildbot_service.py?
>>
>> Again, apologies for the spam,
>
> Don't apologise at all, if there is one thing that bugs me is that people
> either don't bother to follow up when they find a solution themselves, or -
> even worse imo - they reply with 'never mind, sorted it' . You, on the other
> hand, have followed up and posted a solution/workaround. This will help me
> when I no doubt come across the same problem when I install Buildbot slave
> on a Windows 7 VM next week.

+1.

(Will probably also do that within an month or two.)

/Marcus