[Buildbot-devel] Clean environment on build slaves

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca> wrote:
> So I'd like to find a way to clean the environment of each build slave
> *or* of each build. Didn't see anything in the manual. We're currently
> running 0.7.12; we haven't had a good reason to upgrade to 0.8 yet,
> but I'm willing to do so if necessary.
>
> Best idea we've had so far is to hack something into the buildbot.tac
> file on each slave, but I don't like the idea of maintaining that hack
> on 5 slaves running 3 operating systems. I'd much rather have
> something under the control of master.cfg.

Probably the best solution is to start buildbot from a shell script
that sets the env explicitly.  You can also override all of the
"important" variables in every shell step, if that works better for
you..

Dustin