#labels Contents-Draft,Importance-Useful,Phase-Deploy
#Summary This page documents how to setup a buildbot for Melange.

= Introduction =

Buildbot is an open source framework for automating software build, test run, and release. At Melange, we're using buildbot for these automations. The instructions are for a mint clean debian based machine, however due to various choices made in this page, the instructions shouldn't be a lot different for other distros. 

= Instructions =

{{{
  $ wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
  $ sudo python get-pip.py‎
  $ sudo pip install virtualenv
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext libz-dev libssl-dev python-lxml python-dev
  $ cd; mkdir buildbot; cd buildbot;
  $ virtualenv venv; cd venv;  . bin/activate
  $ pip install buildbot buildbot-slave
  $ buildbot create-master master
  $ mv master/master.cfg.sample master/master.cfg

  # Let's see if the everything is in order as of now.
  $ buildbot master start; tail -f master/twistd.log
  # If the logs appear okay, we're good to go!
 
  # Let's create a slave, and see if it's running okay.
  $ cd ~/venv; buildslave create-slave slave localhost:9989 example-slave pass
  $ buildslave start slave; tail -f slave/twistd.log   
}}}


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