Occasionally, it is useful to execute some task on the master, for example to
create a directory, deploy a build result, or trigger some other centralized
processing. This is possible, in a limited fashion, with the
MasterShellCommand
step.
This step operates similarly to a regular ShellCommand
, but executes on
the master, instead of the slave. To be clear, the enclosing Build
object must still have a slave object, just as for any other step – only, in
this step, the slave does not do anything.
In this example, the step renames a tarball based on the day of the week.
from buildbot.steps.transfer import FileUpload from buildbot.steps.master import MasterShellCommand f.addStep(FileUpload(slavesrc="widgetsoft.tar.gz", masterdest="/var/buildoutputs/widgetsoft-new.tar.gz")) f.addStep(MasterShellCommand(command=""" cd /var/buildoutputs; mv widgetsoft-new.tar.gz widgetsoft-`date +%a`.tar.gz"""))