[Buildbot-devel] How to start builds on multiple buildslaves at the same time?

Amber Yust ayust at yelp.com
Thu May 19 17:28:56 UTC 2011


Create a builder that triggers them all?

~Amber

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Keith Nicewarner <
Keith.Nicewarner at spacex.com> wrote:

> Ugh – but then to do a force-build on each platform, I’d have to click the
> button N times.  Is there a way to have all the builders trigger off the
> same force-build request?
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> *From:* Amber Yust [mailto:ayust at yelp.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 19, 2011 9:54 AM
> *To:* Keith Nicewarner
> *Cc:* buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Buildbot-devel] How to start builds on multiple
> buildslaves at the same time?
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> No, but what you can do is have multiple builders use the same build
> factory, so that you don't have to repeat the specification of the steps.
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> ~Amber (sent from Droid, please forgive any typos!)
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> On May 19, 2011 9:33 AM, "Keith Nicewarner" <Keith.Nicewarner at spacex.com>
> wrote:
> > We might be abusing buildbot, but here's what we need to do. We have the
> exact same source code that we want to build on different
> platforms/toolchains. We cannot always easily use cross-compiling on a
> single platform. On each platform, the checkout, build, and test steps are
> completely identical. At first I thought setting up multiple buildslaves for
> the same builder would do the trick, but then I realized that the list is
> treated as a buildslave pool and it will only select one to build on. Is
> there an easy way to have a builder cause multiple buildslaves to start
> building at the same time?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Keith.
> >
>
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