[Buildbot-devel] How to suppress "rm -rf" at start of SVN update operation???

[Amber Yust]

That sounds like for some reason the source step fell back to a Clobber-mode
update. Is this happening on every build, even after a successful one?

~Amber

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Peter Barada <peter.barada at logicpd.com>wrote:

> How do I suppress the "rm -rf build" that is done at the start of a
> job?  This wasn't a problem when I ran buildbot-0.8.3p1 (w.o
> ChangeFilters), but when I upgraded to 0.8.4 (Twisted 10.1.0) it starst
> off with a "rm -rf .../build" to wipe out the build tree.  Here's (a
> snippet of) what I have for master.cfg:
>
> LTIB_REPO_20091102='svn+ssh://
> LOGIC+peterb at cvs.logicpd.com/cvs/eps_svn/software/products/linux/LTIB/trunk/ltib-20091102
> '
> svn_poller = SVNPoller(
>                    svnurl=LTIB_REPO_20091102,
>                    pollinterval=5*60, # seconds
>                    histmax=10,
>                    svnbin='/usr/bin/svn',
>                    project='repo-ltib-20091102',
> )
> c['schedulers'].append(Scheduler(name="LTIB-20091102",
>
> change_filter=ChangeFilter(project='repo-ltib-20091102'),
>                                 treeStableTimer=2*60,
>                                 builderNames=["buildbot-LTIB-20091102"]))
>
> f1 = factory.BuildFactory()
> f1.addStep(SVN(mode='update', baseURL=LTIB_REPO_20091102,
> defaultBranch=''))
> f1.addStep(Compile(command=["./ltib", "-b", "--preconfig",
> "config/platform/omap3logic/defconfig"],
>                    haltOnFailure=True))
>
> b1 = {'name': "buildbot-LTIB-20091102",
>       'slavename': "example-slave",
>       'builddir': "ltib-20091102",
>       'factory': f1,
>       }
> c['builders'] = [b1]
>
> The start of the update log file looks like:
>
> starting svn operation
> rm -rf /home/peter/work/logic/buildbot/ltib-slave/ltib-OMAPPSP/build
>  in dir /home/peter/work/logic/buildbot/ltib-slave/ltib-OMAPPSP (timeout
> 1200 secs)
>  watching logfiles {}
>  argv: ['rm', '-rf',
> '/home/peter/work/logic/buildbot/ltib-slave/ltib-OMAPPSP/build']
>  environment:
>
>
> I don't want to remove the ltib-OMAPPSP/build tree since inside of the
> tree is a LInux root filesystem (which "rm -rf" fails due to root owned
> files/directories in it) and also it takes a looong time to rebuild from
> scratch.  I tried adding a "always_purge=False" to the SVN(), but it has
> no effect.
>
> Any suggestions are most appreciated!
>
>
> --
> Peter Barada
> peter.barada at logicpd.com
>
>
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