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Buildbot masters and slaves
Master
From the root of the git checkout (this will use the master.cfg from CoolProp)
pip install buildbot
cd dev/buildbot
buildbot create-master master
buildbot start master
The file buildbot-private.py (which is a python module with the passwords for the slaves as well as the buildbot website), should also be placed in the master folder next to master.cfg. Alternatively, you can put the buildbot_private.py in another folder on the master's computer and make a soft-link in the master folder to point to the buildbot_private.py file.
If you want to completely restart the master, you can do
buildbot restart master
but usually a
buildbot reconfig master
will do the job since it will just reparse the configuration file without signing you out of the server
To ensure that the buildbot server stays online, you can make a script with the contents
buildbot start /path/to/master_folder
and add it to a cron job
Slaves
To start a slave connected to a buildbot master at IP address 10.0.0.2 (default for host for VirtualBox), with a slave named example-slave and passsword pass, run the command
buildslave create-slave slave 10.0.0.2:9989 example-slave pass
buildslave start slave
If the master is somewhere else, just change the IP address.
On linux, you can add the following lines to the end of your ~/.profile file (similar ideas apply on other platforms) to autostart the slave when the user logs in:
# Connect to the buildbot master
buildslave start ~/slave