[Buildbot-devel] Change builder's build #'s to match subversion changeset #?

[Philippe McLean]

the environment on the build slave may also change between builds (for
example a compiler upgrade), and this would difference would not be
reflected in a build number based on svn revision. More modern source
control systems (e.g. git/mercurial) also do not have sequential or small
revision ids.

A requirement that sometimes comes up, and does not seem to be met, is to
generate globally unique build numbers, and associate them in some
persistent database with the source revision id/ slave name / slave
environment, so that builds can be tracked in the wild once they are
released.

e.g.

fun-1.3-23433.exe

is publicly released, and 23433 is the globally unique build number (not the
builder's build number).

has anyone built something like this?

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2011, at 4:45 PM, William Deegan wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to modify the builder's build number to match the
> > subversion changeset #?
>
> If the build number were assigned to be the Subversion revision
> number, you would only be able to build each revision once before the
> build number is no longer unique. (When bringing up a new builder for
> NUT, I often end up resubmitting a build of one specific revision
> several times before I get all of the dependencies right.)
>
> I'm not too familiar with that part of the code, but it might be tough
> to pass the revision number through to the code that assigns the build
> number (since got_revision is usually obtained through a build step
> after the build begins). I guess you could look through the change
> object, but this wouldn't be applicable if the build were triggered
> from the "force build" button (as above), or from a periodic-type
> scheduler.
>
> Can you describe your particular situation in more depth? If you are
> looking for a more prominent SVN revision on the waterfall, you could
> probably get that by subclassing the SVN step, and using the
> got_revision property. The same would be true on a build status page,
> although you would want a fallback in case the SVN step fails (network
> trouble while checking out, etc).
>
>
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