[users at bb.net] Same workdir for two builders

[Pierre Tardy]

I dont think it is officially supported.

Le ven. 29 juil. 2016 à 20:22, Ryan Schmidt <buildbot at ryandesign.com> a
écrit :

> Hi Pierre, thank you for your reply. I was trying to avoid having to
> specify the ".." path in every step. I was hoping there was a way to change
> the default workdir "build" to "../build". Is that possible?
>
>
> On Jul 29, 2016, at 6:04 AM, Pierre Tardy wrote:
>
> > Hi Ryan,
> >
> > What we usually recommend in order to implement builders that have a
> share directory is just to use ../ in your command.
> >
> > for example, if you need a shared virtualenv for all your builders you
> would say in your shell commands:
> >
> > SANDBOX=$WORDIR/../sandbox
> > virtualenv $SANDBOX
> > . $SANDBOX/bin/activate
> > pip install foo
> >
> > etc.
> >
> >
> > With this method, you assume that the workdir is always one directory
> away from your worker's main workdir (which is imho reasonable).
> >
> > Pierre
> >
> > Le ven. 29 juil. 2016 à 12:53, Ryan Schmidt a écrit :
> >> Hi, I have several buildbot 0.8.12 worker machines, each with two
> builders. One of the builders ("watcher") is triggered by changes in the
> version control system. It does some preliminary setup work, then triggers
> one or more jobs on the other builder ("builder") which does the actual
> building. The "watcher" waits until all the jobs it triggered on "builder"
> have finished. I would like "watcher" and "builder" to share some files,
> and it seems natural to want to place those files in the workdir, which
> means they would need to share the same workdir. What's the best way to
> accomplish that, or is there a reason why I shouldn't do that? The most
> relevant documentation I found through Google was:
> >>
> >>
> http://docs.buildbot.net/current/manual/customization.html#factory-workdir-functions
> >>
> >> But that talks about using a callable function to return a workdir
> determined at runtime. I don't need that. How can I just set a different
> default workdir, for all build steps (while still allowing one build step
> to override that)? Can I just set build_factory.workdir to a string instead
> of a function? Is that documented somewhere that I missed?
> >
>
>
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