Private developer build facility
Table of Contents:
- [What is pbuild] (#what-is-pbuild)
- [Assumptions] (#assumptions)
- [Command Quialifiers to pbuild] (#command-qualifiers-to-pbuild)
- [Environment Variables] (#environment-variables)
- [Valid Projects] (#valid-projects)
- [Settings that Modify Behavior] (#settings-that-modify-behavior)
- [Per-Project Configuration Options] (#per-project-configuration-options)
- [Output description for Progress Setting] (#output-description-for-progress-setting)
- [Support for testrun attributes and names] (#support-for-testrun-attributes-and-names)
- [Keyboard Input] (#keyboard-input)
- [Code of Conduct] (#code-of-conduct)
pbuild (private build) is a utility that allows a developer to verify code changes compile and run unit tests on a wide variety of different platforms simultaneously.
pbuild will allow you to do a build across all our platforms using your git clones under your own accounts. So, since you’re using your own account, if you have a problem on a host, you simply need to go to the appropriate directory and everything is left intact to work on resolving the problem. pbuild supports checking out a branch in git if you ask it to, and making a target of your choice (default target is 'testrun'). There are other options as well. pbuild supports running on any or all of your development hosts.
pbuild is driven by an initialization file to define the hosts to use. A sample configuration file can be found in the same location as pbuild itself, and should contain config_sample with either config_hosts_core or config_hosts_nip appended to that, depending on what s closer to the machine list that you want. The configuration file is normally stored in ~/.pbuild, but this can be customized via environment variable PBUILD.
pbuild, by default, stores log files from the builds in your home directory (~/). This can be customized via the configuration file. See the sample configuration file for details.
pbuild fully supports terminating the builds via ^C. Upon termination, pbuild will kill all child processes, causing remote build operations to terminate.
To run pbuild, you can do "python pbuild.py" with any command line options.
While running, pbuild will show status like this:
Tag Host Name Status
aix_5.3 scxaix1 Done (18:55)
aix_6.1 scxaix3-3 Done (23:30)
hp_v2_ia64 scxhpi10 Done (21:45)
hp_v2_risc scxhpr3 Done (24:55)
hp_v3_ia64 scxhpi1
hp_v3_risc scxhpr2 Done (27:00)
mac_10.5 scx-mac04 Done (07:15)
redhat_4_x86 scxrhel4-01 Done (23:50)
redhat_5_x86 scxcore-rhel50-01 Done (11:55)
sun_5.10_sparc scxsun12 Done (24:40)
sun_5.10_x86 scxcore-solx86-01 Done (23:50)
sun_5.8_sparc scxsun03-s8
sun_5.9_sparc scxsun14 Done (24:30)
suse_10_x86 scxcore-suse01 Done (12:35)
suse_9_x86 scxsles9-01
Elapsed Time: 27:45
In this example, hosts scxhpi1, scxsun03-s8, and scxsles9-01 are still building. All other hosts have completed (with time to complete). If a build fails, status is "Failed" (bolded).
###Assumptions:
- For simplicity, pbuild assumes that you're using certificates
everywhere. This means that you can type "ssh
" from one Unix/Linux host to go directly to some other
Unix/Linux host without username/password prompts.
pbuild, when starting, will verify that all required SSH keys are stored in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. If you have modified your configuration file, pbuild will run this verification step again to double check that all your hosts can be reached. This can be forced with --initialize.
- pbuild assumes that you're using 'bash' as your shell. If important, it can be changed to support other shells. But to date it has no such support.
Please do pbuild --help for latest/greatest information:
Usage: pbuild.py [option-list] [host-list] (use --help or -h for help)
pbuild will allow you to do a build across all platforms using your own git
clones. If a build problem occurs, all files are left completely intact,
simplifying the steps you must perform to replicate the problem. pbuild
supports a wide variety of options, specified below. For more information,
view the README file checked in with pbuild.
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--abortOnError Immediately aborts when the first remote build fails
(for future - do not use yet)
--attributes=TEST_ATTRS
Specifies the unit test attributes that you wish to
use to restrict unit tests
-b BRANCH, --branch=BRANCH
Selects the branch for the top level project or
superproject
-d, --debug Build targets in DEBUG mode
--clone Forces a new clone of the repository, even if
repository already exists
--command=COMMAND Executes the specified command string rather than
buiding/running a command script to perform a remote
build
--exclude=EXCLUDE Overrides default exclude list from configuration file
(if any); comma-separated list of hosts to exclude
from the build
--initialize Verify public keys in known_hosts file
-l, --list List host configuration information and exit
--logdir=LOGDIR Overrides 'logdir' from configuration file
--logdir_prior=LOGDIR_PRIOR
Overrides 'logdir_prior' from configuration file
--nodebug Build targets in NODEBUG mode
--nocurses Disable curses for dynamic screen updating (may be
useful for diagnostic purposes)
--select=SELECT Select specification to build (only build hosts with
this select specification)
--settings=SETTINGS Overrides default settings from program and
configuration file (i.e. 'ShowSummary,LogFile')
-s SUBPROJECT, --subproject=SUBPROJECT
Comma-separated list of subproject:branch pairs to
select branches in subprojects, like "opsmgr:jeff-
sun,pal:jeff-sun"
-t TARGET, --target=TARGET
Specifies the build target to use for the 'make'
command (default: 'testrun'). Set target as empty
string to avoid the 'make' step (useful to, say, undo
changes on a host)
--tests=TESTS Specifies the subset of unit tests that you wish to
run (if the target includes "testrun"); may be a
comma-separated list
Environment variables that modify and control PBUILD behavior:
| Env Variable | Purpose |
|---|---|
| PBUILD | Path where the PBUILD configuraiton file can be found. By default, this is ~/.pbuild unless the PBUILD environment variable is set. |
Projects are specified in per-project configuration options as well as host entries. Valid projects are defined as follows:
| Project | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Apache | Apache OMI Provider |
| MySQL | MySQL OMI Provider |
| OM | Operations Manager (OMI Provider) |
| OMI | Open Management Infrastructure |
| OMI | Operations Insight |
| PAL | Platform Abstraction Layer |
Settings are set to "reasonable defaults for most people" automatically. By that, I mean that settings are the most logical and trouble-free settings, but not necessarily the "nicest" settings.
Settings can be overridden by the configuration file, or by the command line qualifier "--settings". A setting can be prefixed by "no" to disable it; if it is not prefixed by "no", then the setting is enabled.
Settings that can be controlled:
| Setting | Purpose |
|---|---|
| CheckValidity | Verify, when the .pbuild file is modified, that all locations are valid and are set up on each machine. This is the default behavior and serves to catch build problems early. But, for very experienced PBUILD users, you may wish to disable this. |
| Debug | Build code in DEBUG mode. |
| DeleteLogfiles | Prior to starting a build, delete all variations of log files that will be written for that build. This is useful to avoid clutter when using "LogfileRename" (described below). |
| DiagnoseErrors | Leaves temporary build script intact on destination system in case of internal problems with pbuild. |
| LogfileRename | After a build, the log files are renamed to indicate if the final build status was successful or unsuccessful. |
| LogfileSelect | This option will choose a name for the logfile that includes the selector that is being used for the build. This allows multiple instances of PBUILD to be run concurrently against different selectors. |
| Progress | Display progress updates for the build. This results in a lot of screen updates during the build, and is thus a setting that can be disabled. |
| SummaryScreen | Show a summary screen at the end of a build. This appears to be needed for putty users (for some reason, curses clears the screen when you're using putty). Nice to disable if you can (cleaner screen output). |
Default settings are:
CheckValidity, Debug, DeleteLogfiles, NoDiagnoseErrors, NoLogfileRename, NoLogfileSelect, Progress, SummaryScreen
PBUILD supports per-project configuration options. This is useful if you need to set project-specific options. Two such options are currently supported:
make_target : project : options
configure_options : project : options
Spaces around the : separators in the above example are optional. Note that
fields (project or option fields) must not contain any : characters.
If you run pbuild with the Progress setting (the default), then pbuild will
display a line under the status column like:
- <operation> <lines>
For example, you may see a line like:
- make pal (619)
This means that the build is currently executing the make pal step, and
that 619 lines of log text have been received since the make pal step was
started.
Note that if the first byte is a ? rather than a -, as in:
? make pal (619)
this means that no log text has been received for 31 seconds or more (in other
words, the host does not appear to be responding). Once the host performs
additional work, the ? will change back to a -.
Qualifier -attributes can be used to only run certain tests with attributes set
in the test source files. Prepend a - to include the opposite setting.
Today, only attribute SLOW is defined in tests, and is defined to be any test that takes "a while" to run.
For example: -attributes=-SLOW will only run tests that are not marked as slow tests
Qualifer -tests can be used to restrict tests that are run, or to ignore tests
that are run. Prepend a - to a test name to ignore a certain test.
For example: -tests=-atomic will run all tests except those with atomic in their name.
-tests=atomic,condition will only run tests with atomic or condition in their names
Configuration tag test_attributes will form default attribute specification.
Configuration tag test_list will form the default unit test specification.
Once every poll interval the keyboard is polled for input. The following characters are recognized:
| Character | Purpose | Description |
|---|---|---|
r |
Redraw Screen | Useful if an SSH error corrupts your screen (if a host is down, for example). |
^C |
Abort | There's actually no special handling for this since none is needed. Causes pbuild to abort processing, cleaning up all remote processes and aborting the build across all systems. |
This project has adopted the [Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct] (https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/). For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ] (https://opensource.microsoft.com/codeofconduct/faq/) or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.