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

[Eyal Edri]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Eyal Edri <eedri at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>> What do you mean by 'gating to the merge'? I'm not sure I understand what
>> it means.
>> Isn't check-patch.sh does the gating? check-merge runs post merge so its
>> already too late to gate the code ...
>> And I think check-merge and check-patch currently runs the same rpmbuild
>> command, so I don't see how check-merged has any value over check-patch.
>>
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> when merge command is issued a rebase is done as well. We still need a
> check-merged job because the code checked by check-patch is not the same
> anymore when check-merged runs.
>

OK, now I understand, so indeed check-merge can potentially run on
different code than check-patch and possibly fail due to it.


> In original desing of stdci, check-merged was supposed to become a gating
> test for build-artifacts.
>

We have it in our backlog, i.e installing Zuul and adding gating for the
check-merged jobs, its mostly relevant for system jobs, but we can
defiently do it first for simple 'check-merged.sh' jobs
as part of standard CI.

Opened a ticket for it [1]

[1] https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-734

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>>> If there's not gating process performed by check-merge then I agree in
>>> dropping rpm build.
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>>>> [1] https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-416
>>>> [2] http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-engine_master_check-m
>>>> erged-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)
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sandro Bonazzola
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>> --
>> 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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> --
> Sandro Bonazzola
> Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration.
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>



-- 
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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