What's the best way to use external artifacts as input to a buildbot build?

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I am using buildbot to build a firmware image from a bunch of other pre-built artifacts. The pre-built artifacts are built using a different system(jenkins) which is not under my control. I want to automatically kick off a new build when new artifacts are available. Since it's not under my control I can't add anything to "trigger" buildbot. I need a poll-based approach. What's the best way to do something like this with buildbot? Should I treat the pre-built artifacts as "source" and make a JenkinsPoller that extends PollingChangeSource? Should I create a new scheduler that polls jenkins?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 05 '13 at 20:49

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So I ended up implementing a PollingChangeSource called JenkinsPoller with code lifted from GoogleCodeAtomPoller.

answered Jun 05 '13 at 20:49

Ryan Nowakowski

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '13 at 01:02

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I'd use a PBSource in buildbot and have Jenkins call buildbot sendchange as the last step after creating its artifacts.

buildbot sendchange --master {MASTERHOST}:{PORT} --auth {USER}:{PASS}
    --who {USER} {FILENAMES..}

see: http://buildbot.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/cmdline.html

answered Jun 01 '13 at 01:02

David Dean

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Unfortunately I don't have any control over the Jenkins install so I can't add anything. – Ryan Nowakowski Jun 03 '13 at 20:36

What's the best way to use external artifacts as input to a buildbot build?

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