Run jenkins test on a rhel6 host

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/20/2013 01:09 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On 01/20/2013 06:34 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:58:55PM +0800, Mark Wu wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I am a vdsm developer.  Recently I submit a vdsm patch fix a break
>>> on fedora 18. I just verify it on fedora, but not on RHEL6 before
>>> merged. Unfortunately, my patch called a function which
>>> has a bug on rhel6. That bug was fixed in fedora, but not backported
>>> to rhel6.  So I am thinking is it possible to also run the jenkins
>>> test on a rhel6 host for each patch? Then we can find the break in
>>> time.
>>> and the developer don't need to run the test cases on two systems
>>> for one patch.
>>
>> I'd like to join Mark's plea.  I believe that the only problem is of finding
>> the resources for another Jenkins slave.
>>
>> Missing an el6 slave is a pain point for me - I've
>> accepted Saggi's http://gerrit.ovirt.org/9986 and now Vdsm's master
>> branch fails to build on EL6 on the following grounds:
>
> OK, we're working on getting actual RHEL 6 entitlements for the new
> hosts at Rackspace, which has one server to be dedicated to multiple
> Jenkins slaves.
>
> It will be a week or more for those hosts to be available. Once I have
> the details, I'll forward them to the Jenkins admins so they can get
> started ASAP. (We don't need to wait for Puppet, we can puppetize the
> server later.)
>
> - Karsten
>
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we have two rhel 6 jenkins slaves on ec2 today - is there an issue with 
them?