Hera Try Server Setup

DRAFT

This is the configuration of the http://hera.senecac.on.ca buildbot try server.

Front Node

General OS

• CentOS 5
• incron
• cron
• perl
• python
• mysql with 1 database set up
• apache configured so that a .cgi/.pl/.py will be run in any directory and the DocumentRoot is writable
• ssh
• vnc

CVS-Mirror

This is necessary for the buildslaves inside hera, but also for Seneca developers (e.g., getting code in a lab is slow now) -- so make this accessible (i.e, hera.senecac.on.ca:2401) for Seneca IPs if you don't want it to be public, otherwise make it public. See http://wiki.mozilla.org/How_to_Create_a_CVS_Mirror

Try-Server

• FTP access to web root.

• Try-Server web interface requires the REMOTE_USER to be set. We'd like to use .htaccess to manage vs. logins on the box

Buildmaster

• TODO
• The master.cfg for Buildbot will be a mixture of these two buildbot-configs (TryServer buildbot-config and Testing buildbot-config) but we will end up having to customise it to our Hera farm

BuildSlaves

• NOTE: slaves need to be able to talk to the Try-Server (i.e., web server) to push finished builds back via scp.
• NOTE2: slaves will have to be able to checkout the latest source code, either from the CVS-mirror that we set up or from Mozilla CVS repository

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/tools/buildbotcustom/tryserver/

Linux (CentOS 5)

• Setup Build Environment - see version info at http://wiki.mozilla.org/ReferencePlatforms/Linux-CentOS-5.0

• Setup Buildbot - see http://wiki.mozilla.org/ReferencePlatforms/BuildBot/Linux

Windows (Server 2003)

• Windows Server 2003 (or XP if you can't do 2003)

• Visual Studio 2005 (just C++) or grab the free one and add the Platform SDK manually. See: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites#Software_Requirements

• Mozilla Build 1.2 ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.2.exe

• Install Python http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.4/python-2.4.4.msi

• Add Python to the system path

• Install Python-Twisted library http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Twisted/2.4/Twisted_NoDocs-2.4.0.win32-py2.4.exe

• Install pywin32 extensions http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pywin32/pywin32-210.win32-py2.4.exe

• Get and Build/Install buildbot:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/tools/buildbot
cd mozilla/tools/buildbot
python setup.py build
python setup.py install