Multiple types of build for different build triggers

Question

I have a setup where our code builds to dev every 5 hours on a schedule trigger. This works great, but the downside that the code could sit in teamcity for hours before it triggers and alerts us to a build error.

Is there a way to have a VCS trigger also run the build as soon as its checked in, but passing something to our NANT script to say "just build, don't deploy"?

I know I must be missing something.. is there any way to achieve this? The only way I could think of was to have an entirely separate build configuration, but that seemed rather wasteful

Answer 1

You can setup a new build with a VCS trigger and then have that build have a env/system variable set that your build script can read to determine whether or not to deploy to dev.

See TeamCity Docs for information around this. I've used something like this in setting up builds before and it works well.