Custom build number in pipeline

[Allen Fisher]

Hi All—

 

We have a peculiar version numbering scheme that we use for some of our products… it comes from the particular world that our products live in:

 

R02M3210101

 

This “build number” comes from a database lookup after a component is built. The gradle/ant build that packages the build looks up this number no problem and uses it to build the installer. Is it possible to have the gradle build pass this up to the pipeline and set it as the Jenkins build number? I’m looking ahead to when I roll out this system to testers and support and the need to look at a build and know which one it is… the normal Jenkins build number doesn’t convey the right amount of information necessary to post.

 

Thanks!

 

Allen

 

	Allen Fisher  Build and Release Engineer

 

 

[Mark Waite]

Wouldn't it be better to set the build description to that value, rather than the build number?  Keeping the build number as entirely managed by Jenkins seems more likely to always generate unique values for the build number.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36501203/jenkins-pipeline-plugin-set-the-build-description describes how to set build description.

Mark Waite

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[Allen Fisher]

Hi Mark—

 

That’s a good point… I’m publishing to Artifactory though, and was hoping to use the build number as a folder name. Looks like the build description is available so I could use that to set the folder on Artifactory.

 

Thanks for the link.

 

Allen

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