The upgrade to buildbot-0.8.4 requires a change in buildbot.tac, from from buildbot.slave.bot import BuildSlave to from buildslave.bot import BuildSlave Without the slave allocator running, this is going to be a tiresome change to make (and this upgrade is blocking deploying the slave allocator). For unrelated reasons we need to install the buildbot source code as well as buildbot-slave, which means that adding a dummy buildbot.slave.bot module that points to buildslave.bot could be made to work fairly easily. This would de-synchronize the need to upgrade buildbot.tac from the deployment of the new version of Buildbot. Once slave allocator is available everywhere, the patch could be reverted.

Comment on attachment 513509 [details] [diff] [review] m635296-buildbot-r1.patch r+ pending future bug to remove this requirement after slavealloc is ready to handle the chore

Sorry -- original version worked fine in place, but didn't include the new fake subpackage in the distribution because it wasn't mentioned in setup.py This version is confirmed to work on a staging slave.

slaves branch - 0b3e92109b06