[Buildbot-devel] required fields forcing a build

[Pierre Tardy]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Harry Borkhuis <harry at aeteurope.nl> wrote:
> Pierre,
>
> In your proposal you use the method addBuildsetForLatest, but this method
> does not have the parameter 'revision' which probably is by design
> ('forLatest'). So you cannot force a specific revision.
Yeah, that make sense...

> Only in case of changeids a specific revision can be specified. But I do not
> understand how to pass changeids to a force build. Where do the changeids
> come from?
You can inherit them from another build using InheritBuildParameter.
In my own conf, I also have a customized parameter that creates
changeids from an user input (a list of gerrit change URLs like
http://r.cyanogenmod.com/#change,10762)

Regards,
Pierre