[Buildbot-devel] Setup of client's environment from client

[Philippe McLean]

what are some examples of things you need to configure in the environment?

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Trask <trask at techsoft3d.com> wrote:

>
>     * Buildbot: 0.8.3p1
>     * Twisted: 10.1.0
>     * Jinja: 2.5.2
>     * Python: 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56) [GCC 4.4.5]
>     * Buildmaster platform: linux2
>
> In order to follow best practices I am working to capture all
> configuration information within the source itself so that it is
> versioned, tagged, etc right along with everything else.
>
> One particular part has been giving me problems: how to set up the slave
> environment based upon code it has checked out in a buildstep.  If I set
> everything in master.cfg on the buildmaster, everything works fine,
> however that does not capture the configuration data within the
> ever-changing source.
>
> My original idea was to run a "setup-environment.py" script which would
> always be run prior to the other build steps.  This doesn't work because
> it is only modifying the environment for it's own process.  Even if it
> did modify the global environment that is not ideal due to likely
> collisions with simultaneous usage of the machine.
>
> My next attempt was to encapsulate every command within a "setup-env"
> script.  You pass the command to run to the script as an argument and
> then it sets up the environment and then runs the command.  I've gotten
> this to work to a degree but is clearly not the proper way to accomplish
> what I am trying to do.
>
> BuildProperties seems promising but I haven't thought of a clean way to
> use them.  I could imagine running the "setup-env" script, having it
> spit out the proper environment settings to use and then using
> "SetProperty" with a custom function to set Properties which THEN get
> translated into environment settings on the client.  Hmmph.
>
> This seems like an issue that would crop up for a lot of people so I am
> interested in hearing how other people have solved this.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> ~Trask
>
>
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