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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