add support for setting buildbot paths in config

Submitted by Sascha Silbe

Assigned to Alacarte Maintainer(s)

Description

At SugarLabs, we're using jhbuild for providing the developer setup with the latest versions of all components (i.e. like you're doing for GNOME) and the BuildBot integration for automated build testing as well. We're using the (almost) unmodified jhbuild git tree with a slim wrapper module (providing e.g. support for handling Sugar "bundles" as module type) in order to get upstream changes without needing to merge them every time (as we would if we'd maintain a custom branch).

Until now, we patched jhbuild to change some hardcoded locations in order for the buildbot support of jhbuild to use our paths (configs etc.). It would be great if we could just set these in the jhbuildrc instead.

There are two things we need to customise:

a) command name (to call the wrapper instead of upstream jhbuild) b) buildbot directory location

I'll attach the patch we used so you can see the locations of the hardcoded strings.