2012/2/29 Gavin McDonald <ga...@16degrees.com.au>: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jesse Glick [mailto:jesse.gl...@oracle.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 8:55 AM >> To: builds@apache.org >> Subject: Re: [Buildbot] value for M2_HOME (maven.home) ? >> >> On 02/28/2012 05:46 PM, Gavin McDonald wrote: >> >> Is there a document that describes where to find things on each slave? >> > >> > with over 30 slaves and different admins installing stuff all the time, I >> > fear it >> would be a nightmare to keep updated. >> >> This is why tool auto-installation [1] was created. Even if you do not want >> to >> use the automatic installers, you can still define an abstract tool on master >> and then assign a path for it on each slave (in the node properties page). >> Then a job can use the tool without having to hardcode a path. If by "using" >> the tool you need to do something more specialized than just assigning it to >> a >> standard build step, the Tool Environment plugin [2] can be very helpful. >> >> [1] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Tool+Auto-Installation >> [2] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Tool+Environment+Plugin > > Note the Topic - BUILDBOT , not Jenkins! > > If the Jenkins Admins want to do that, fine. > > Gav... > >
Yup that's good for our tools (Ant Maven) using this automatic installer/downloader. BTW for jdk it's not anymore possible as some changes has been done on oracle download side.... (so doesn't work anymore) and it was not supported for all os. -- Olivier
