Buildbot Setup for MacOSX
Setting up a Buildbot slave on Mac OS X
Install buildbot-slave using macports or buildbot from fink (if you use old version of buildbot/buildbot-slave you should use buildbot command instead of buildslave-2.6 in following instructions).
Add user buildbot:
Make sure that you do not have a buildbot user and group on your system
# Check for group with id 101
id -g -nr 101
# Check for user with id 101
id -u -nr 101If you do not have the group and user buildbot, then create the group and the user buildbot
# Create group buildbot with group id 101
GROUP="buildbot"
dscl . create /groups/$GROUP
dscl . create /groups/$GROUP name $GROUP
dscl . create /groups/$GROUP passwd "*"
dscl . create /groups/$GROUP gid 101
# Create user buildbot with id 101
BUILDSLAVE_HOME=/var/lib/buildslave
USER=buildbot
mkdir -p $BUILDSLAVE_HOME
dscl . -create /Users/$USER
dscl . -create /Users/$USER RealName "Buildbot slave"
dscl . -create /Users/$USER NFSHomeDirectory $BUILDSLAVE_HOME
dscl . -create /Users/$USER UserShell /bin/bash
dscl . -create /Users/$USER UniqueID 101
dscl . -create /Users/$USER PrimaryGroupID 101
chown 101:101 $BUILDSLAVE_HOMETo hide the user use:
Prepare environment:
Buildbot can be started/stopped manually with these commands (it's a good idea to start and stop it to see if it is set up correctly):
If you installed buildbot from fink, please make sure that the buildbot user is using the environment settings. Your .profile should contain follwing line:
In order to make buildbot start on system boot, you'll need to create /Library/LaunchDaemons/net.sourceforge.buildbot.plist file with the following contents (modified example from buildbot wiki):
If you installed buildbot from fink, then you can edit and copy the plist file
Your plist file should similar to this one after editing:
Note: you have to start your buildslave via launchd, otherwise you will run into several problems. For further details, please refer to Using Launchd
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