[yocto] yocto-autobuilder: Nightly build not building nightly

[Bryan Evenson]

Elizabeth,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flanagan, Elizabeth [mailto:elizabeth.flanagan at intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 10:57 AM
> To: Bryan Evenson
> Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] yocto-autobuilder: Nightly build not building
> nightly
> 
> Bryan,
> 
> This is probably because you only have a ForceScheduler implemented
> which is always on by default. Timed schedulers have to be added. Can
> you post the rest of your nightly-foo?
> 
> You'll need a top level section within that conf that contains:
> 
> 'name_of_scheduler':
>                  {'type': 'Nightly'}
> 
> See: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/yocto-
> autobuilder/tree/README-NEW-AUTOBUILDER
> for more info on scheduler props

I added the following to my buildset configuration:

scheduler: [{'nightly-scheduler' :
                {'type':'Nightly',
                 'hour':'2',
                 'minute':'0',}}]

And I restarted the autobuilder ("./yocto-stop-autobuilder both" and
  "./yocto-start-autobuilder both" from the command line).  Now when
I go to the waterfall display for my autobuilder it shows the current
for my buildset as "waiting next in ~14 hrs 27 min at 2:00".  I'll
see if the build triggers okay tomorrow, but it looks hopeful.  If
I get impatient I may change the build time to later today.

I'll also note that the hour and minute parameter were required for
the scheduler to work.  If I didn't set these values, the autobuilder
failed to start.  I'll post a patch to update the documentation to note
that these values are required.

And for completeness, here is my nightly build config as it stands
right now:

[nightly-foo]
builders: 'builder1'
repos: [{'poky': 
            {'repourl':'git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky', 
	         'layerversion':{'core':'meta', 'yoctobsp':'meta-yocto-bsp'}, 
             'branch':'dylan'}}, 
        {'meta-atmel': 
            {'repourl':'git://github.com/evensonbryan/meta-atmel', 
             'branch':'master'}},
        {'meta-openembedded': 
            {'repourl':'git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded', 
             'branch':'dylan'}}] 
steps: [{'SetDest':{}}, 
        {'CheckOutLayers': {}}, 
        {'RunPreamble': {}}, 
        {'GetDistroVersion' : {'distro': 'poky'}},
        {'CreateAutoConf': {'machine': 'at91sam9x5ek', 'SDKMACHINE' : 'i686', 'distro': 'poky', 'buildhistory': True}},
        {'CreateBBLayersConf': {'buildprovider' : 'yocto', 'layerdirs':
            ['meta-atmel', 'meta-openembedded/meta-oe', 'meta-openembedded/meta-networking']}},
        {'BuildImages': {'images': 'core-image-minimal'}},
        {'SyncPersistDB' : {'commit' : True, 'distro':'poky'}},
        {'PublishLayerTarballs':{}},
        {'PublishArtifacts': {'artifacts': ['at91sam9x5ek', 'ipk']}}]
scheduler: [{'nightly-scheduler' :
                {'type':'Nightly',
                 'hour':'2',
                 'minute':'0',}}]

Thanks,
Bryan Evenson

> 
> -b
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Bryan Evenson
> <bevenson at melinkcorp.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I have a local yocto-autobuilder setup (using yocto-autobuilder
> master) which I can do a build of my own setup.  I created my own
> nightly-foo.conf file and verified that a forced build of this builds
> without errors.  However, the nightly builds are not triggering and I'm
> wondering what I missed.
> >
> > I modified yoctoAB.conf to only include my buildset.  So my
> yoctoAB.conf now looks like this:
> >
> > [BuildSets]
> > Order: ['nightly-foo']
> >
> > I set this up near the beginning of October and there has not been a
> nightly build triggered since my last forced build.  At first I thought
> it was because the layers I am using have not been updated, as I'm
> using the Dylan branch for everything.  However, poky/dylan just
> received some updates a few days ago and my autobuilder has not yet
> triggered a new nightly build.
> >
> > Is there something I need to add to my nightly-foo.conf to get the
> nightly build to trigger?  Or is there a different configuration file
> that I need to modify?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan Evenson
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> 
> 
> --
> Elizabeth Flanagan
> Yocto Project
> Build and Release