[Buildbot-devel] source steps that purge "once in a while" ?

[Philippe McLean]

good idea, thanks.

how would I keep track of  some value that would persist across builds? e.g.
a count that was reset when I purged?
(does this doStepIf run in the context of the master, or on the slave?)

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Amber Yust <ayust at yelp.com> wrote:

> Use a ShellCommand with a doStepIf (to determine which builds to run it)
> that runs a clean command?
>
> ~Amber
>
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Philippe McLean <
> philippe.mclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> does anyone have any experience creating source steps that do a purge of
>> obj/binaries "once in a while" where "once in a while" is a configurable
>> predicate, like, every 4 builds, or once a day, or once a week?
>>
>> something like:
>>
>> factory.addStep(source.SVN(mode='update', baseURL='svn://repo',
>> defaultBranch='trunk', always_purge=False, purgePolicy="buildnumber % 4 ==
>> 0"))
>>
>> thanks
>> Phil McLean
>>
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