Automated Builds

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Freehackers.og uses buildbot to handle automatic testing. See this article to learn more about this decision.

Buildbot can be used to trigger a build test for every commit, but we dont use this at freehackers. The current only way to trigger a build is by actually asking buildbot to do it. This can be done through the webpage, or by chatting with the irc bot.

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[edit] Howto : Provide a slave

Here I describe how you can provide a slave to be added to freehackers 'compile farm'. First, you need to ask for a username and a password. You can ask on irc irc://irc.freenode.org/yzis or irc://irc.freenode.org/freehackers, or on the mailing list.

There is a more detailed documentation on the buildbot manual. Basically, you need to create a new user (to prevent problems with your own account) and issue something like this in its home : 

 buildbot  create-slave freehackers freehackers.org:9980 <username> < password>

One user can have several slaves (one dir = one slave = one project). Of course you need to change the project name (here :freehackers) and the port number (see at the top of the page).

Then, start it to check everything is ok : 

 cd freehackers
 buildroot start .
 # check it's ok on the server buildbot page
 buildroot stop .


When everything is fine you need to be sure the slave is started on each startup.

[edit] Gentoo Specific notes

To have the slave start on each reboot, you need to configure /etc/conf.d/buildslave and to issue (as root) 

 rc-update add buildslave default
 /etc/init.d/buildslave start #check it starts well

[edit] Debian Specific notes

To have the slave start on each reboot, you need to configure /etc/default/buildbot and to issue (as root) 

   /etc/init.d/buildbot start #check it starts well

[edit] Howto : IRC

You can talk with the irc bot on irc. Here is an example : 

 <orzel> fh-buildbot: force build yzis-full because
 <fh-buildbot> build forced [ETA 2m09s]
 <fh-buildbot> I'll give a shout when the build finishes
 <fh-buildbot> Hey! build yzis-full #8 is complete: Success [build successful]
 <fh-buildbot> Build details are at http://freehackers.org:8010yzis-full/builds/8

You can also query him and ask for help.

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