[TIP] [tox] KeyError: 'HOMEDRIVE' on Windows

[Chris Withers]

On 27/01/2012 15:18, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> On 01/27/2012 04:14 PM, Chris Withers wrote:
>> On 27/01/2012 15:11, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
>>>> Is there some environment variable or tox config option I can set that
>>>> will cause this not to be called?
>>>
>>> currently not, right now the code is unconditional,
>>> is it possible to have ShiningPanda install a custom tox tarball?
>>
>> Well, okay, but I can set environment variables in the Jenkins setup for
>> that node, it's more that I need to know what to set them too..
>>
>> So, where should I point HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH to?
> oh, drats, why didn't i think of that
>
> i think anything should do, just use a nonexisting drive and a empty
> path for a starter,
> and just make a dir you can point it to if that fails

I set them to C and \Jenkins respectively, problems solved:

http://jenkins.simplistix.co.uk/job/testfixtures-tox/

Now just one remaining ShiningPanda bug and I'll have a totally clear 
tox build! :-)

Chris

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