[TIP] Best practices to maintain packages in CI environment

[Olemis Lang]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Alex <alex.pubblico.profilo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Our continous integration server (Hudson) controls several slave
> machines (VM), each of which runs Python. Whenever a new package is
> needed, I have to manually install the package in each slave and it's
> very convenient since now I have 20 of them. I've thought of using
> 'virtualenv' but it dramatically increases the build time when the
> number of pacakge is large. What are the best approaches to deploy and
> maintain these pacakges (version) in a build/testing farm ?
>

What I usually do (*LOCALLY*) is to copy all sdists I'm gonna under a
temp dir and then install'em in the virtualenv using sdist command .
If using multiple slaves, I map that folder using e.g. SMB , ...
That's quite much faster than other approaches ; but might not be
useful under other circumstances (e.g. testrun.org) , and probably
this hint won't help .

PS: If I misunderstood your question please tell ;o)

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Regards,

Olemis.

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