[Buildbot-devel] Clean environment on build slaves

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Or run the slave as a specific user that has its own environment settings - settings that are managed and can be kept clean.
That can be done on any platform - OS X, *nix, and Windows.


Ben




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>From: Philippe McLean <philippe.mclean at gmail.com>
>To: Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca>
>Cc: buildbot-devel <buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] Clean environment on build slaves
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>by definition this is slave environment specific so should come from outside buildbot.
>An easy way to manage it is to have startup script for the slave and run it from both places (reboot/cron restart).
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>On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca> wrote:
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>On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
>>> 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..
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>>Yeah, but it'd be nice to have the same logic on Linux, OS X, and
>>Windows. So we're going to try hacking something into buildbot.tac. If
>>it's not too vile, we'll probably go with that. If it is, I guess
>>we'll try a Python wrapper rather than a shell script.
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>>Thanks --
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>>Greg
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