[Python-Dev] Buildbot questions (original) (raw)

Trent Mick trentm at ActiveState.com
Fri Jan 6 18:31:10 CET 2006

[Martin v. Loewis wrote]

I would like to do this in buildbot, but I'm not sure how to (i.e. wipe the build occasionally, but not every time).

For example, I could imagine completely cleaning the build directory every time the build number % 10 == 0. Still, what the precise buildbot incantation would be, I don't know.

(Still learning my buildbot mojo.) One idea would be to do what Mozilla's Tinderbox does: they have one set of builds that are incremental and one set that are full. Actually looking around on tinderbox.mozilla.org I could only find incremental builds so I'm not sure what they are doing.

To wipe out the build occassionally you could (presumably) add a starting step to the Python 'builder' (in the build master.cfg) to rm -rf $builddir every, say, Sunday night.

Trent

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