Dropping rpm build from ovirt-engine check-merged.sh

[Sandro Bonazzola]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Eyal Edri <eedri at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Following [1] I'd like to propose to remove rpm building from the
> 'check-merged.sh' script from ovirt-engine (master for now).
>
> The job [2] takes on avg 15 min while actually the rpms are built already
> in check-patch
> (with gwt draft mode if needed) and runs exactly the same build rpm
> command as check-patch [3].
>
> So there isn't real value in running exactly the same rpm build post
> merge, and we already build full permutation mode in 'build-artifacts.sh'.
>
> Any reason to keep it?
> We can cut down valuable time in CI if we drop it and vacant more time for
> more meaningful tests.
>


This depends on the flow: if we make check_merge gating to the merge and to
the build we should keep the rpm build becuase at merge a rebase is done
automatically.
If there's not gating process performed by check-merge then I agree in
dropping rpm build.



>
>
> [1] https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-416
> [2] http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-engine_master_check-
> merged-el7-x86_64/buildTimeTrend
> [3]
> rpmbuild \
>     -D "_rpmdir $PWD/output" \
>     -D "_topmdir $PWD/rpmbuild" \
>     -D "release_suffix ${SUFFIX}" \
>     -D "ovirt_build_ut $BUILD_UT" \
>     -D "ovirt_build_extra_flags $EXTRA_BUILD_FLAGS" \
>     -D "ovirt_build_draft 1" \
>     --rebuild output/*.src.rpm
>
>
> --
> Eyal Edri
> Associate Manager
> RHV DevOps
> EMEA ENG Virtualization R&D
> Red Hat Israel
>
> phone: +972-9-7692018
> irc: eedri (on #tlv #rhev-dev #rhev-integ)
>



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