building engine artificats from a posted patch?

[Martin Mucha]

Hi,

let me step back a little and explain what we want to achieve. We have patch pushed to gerrit, not merged to master. We want to build rpms from it and pass it (via no official way) to some tester so that he can test it.

I read provided documentation, but I do not have sufficient background to understand it fully.
Questions: 

1. if I opted to run these tests locally, what are expected hw specification? I mean devel build is already more than laptop can handle. If this has enabled all translations, I'd have to take a pto to run it. So is this even possible to be ran on laptop with only 12G ram?

2. Since I probably should be coding instead of waiting for build on irresponsible laptop (which it is even for devel build), would it be possible to have jenkins build, which prepares rpms as described above without need to deploy them to some repo, but allowing to download them instead?

thanks,
M.

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> first you can run it locally quite easily using mock[1], the command
> should be(after jenkins repo is cloned and mock installed) something
> like:
> ../jenkins/mock_configs/mock_runner.sh --mock-confs-dir
> ../jenkins/mock_configs/ --build-only -s fc24
> After running successfully the artifacts will be under
> exported-artifacts directory.
> 
> It is possible to do it from Jenkins too, the problem is that the
> current _build_artifacts job also deploy the created RPMs to
> resources.ovirt.org's experimental repo, which is later consumed by
> OST.
> If needed, we can clone the needed job and remove the deploy part(and
> add -manual suffix), then you can pass the gerrit refspec in the build
> parameters. If so, tell me which job.
> 
> Nadav.
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://ovirt-infra-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CI/Build_and_test_standards.html#testing-the-scripts-locally
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance, but how can I trigger build-artifacts.sh after
> > posting a patch to gerrit?
> >
> > I hope there's an easy way togenerate RPMs to be tested by third
> > parties prior to merging the patch.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan.
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