The PlatformLabeler plugin has been a real help for some of those cases of OS and platform values, and it handles them automatically.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Jeff <predato...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe this exists but I missed it, but I also wonder if there is a way to > inject system environment variables on any node (master/slaves) so that > things like OS name/family, architecture, OS distribution (e.g., 'Ubuntu > 14.04 LTS'), etc. could be already available. > > Seems redundant to have to manually specify labels that are inherent to > the slave environment. > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Kevin Fleming (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN) < > kpflem...@bloomberg.net> wrote: > >> You are correct, the decision logic for choosing slaves only takes labels >> into account, it does not match up JDK requirements. You'll have to put the >> appropriate labels on your slaves as well. >> >> Rather than modifying the decision logic, though, a way to solve this >> problem would be for the configuration code that manages the list of >> installed JDKs on a slave to have an option to inject labels automatically >> into the slave's list of labels based on the installed JDKs. That would >> allow the normal label-based decision logic to work, but would eliminate >> the duplicate data entry (and the opportunity for mistakes). >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >> To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >> At: Apr 29 2014 07:51:24 >> >> As we need a lot of manually installed tools, we decided to have strictly >> separated slaves and provide rather lots of labels to get each project >> built on the right slave. >> This works really good so far. Now we thought we could spare at least the >> label for the JDK, as Jenkins in a sense has all needed information to pick >> the right slave for a needed JDK: >> * All used JDKs are provided in the Jenkins core configuration, and all >> of them are marked as "do not install automatically". >> * Each project has the "Used JDK" set to a particular JDK. >> * Each node has a list of all manually installed JDKs. >> Hence, if Jenkins needs to pick a Slave from the list of possible nodes, >> it can "see" which of those have the needed JDK for a particular project >> installed. >> Unfortunately it does not. In fact, it picks just ANY, even one that has >> not the needed JDK installed. >> >> Certainly this can be easily worked around by using another label for the >> JDK, but we think this is redenundant information. If Jenkins can >> auto-install a missing JDK, why can't it in turn not simply use a different >> slave if the JDK is missing for those not wanting to use auto-install? >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jeff Vincent > See my LinkedIn profile at: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/rjeffreyvincent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Thanks! Mark Waite -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
