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| Running a GTK+ build slave under daemontools |
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| This directory contains several scripts which can be used to run a WebKitGTK+ |
| build slave under daemontools [1]. This is convenient because daemontools |
| will automatically restart services when they die, and that means less human |
| intervention is needed. |
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| Dependencies |
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| In order to use the provided service control files, you will need the |
| following: |
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| * The GNU Bash shell (the scripts contain some bash-isms) |
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| * The daemontools package (or one of its drop-in replacements, like runit |
| or freedt; but only daemontools has been tested so far). |
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| * The crash dump monitor also uses "inotifywait" (part of inotify-tools [2]) |
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| In short, in a Debian-based system you can ensure you have the needed bits |
| with the following command: |
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| apt-get install inotify-tools daemontools-run |
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| Setup |
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| 1. Follow the instructions at http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildBot |
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| 2. Install the dependencies outlined above. |
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| 3. Copy "daemontools-buildbot.conf" to "/etc/daemontools-buildbot.conf" |
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| 4. Edit the configuration file to suit your needs, the comments should |
| be self-explanatory. |
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| 5. Drop the "buildbot", "pulseaudio" and "xvfb" directories (plus |
| "crashmon", if desired) to the service control directory of |
| daemontools; for Debian-based setups that would be "/etc/service" |
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| References |
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| [1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html |
| [2] http://wiki.github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/ |
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