Run jenkins test on a rhel6 host

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:59:55AM -0500, Eyal Edri wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Eyal Edri" <eedri at redhat.com>
> > To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> > Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 9:46:36 AM
> > Subject: Re: Run jenkins test on a rhel6 host
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 6:54:09 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Run jenkins test on a rhel6 host
> > > 
> > > 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:
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> what job runs currently per patch for vdsm that will verify this patch,
> and you want it running on EL?

http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/vdsm_unit_tests_manual_gerrit/

The name of the job is quite bad for something that runs automatically..

It currently runs per patch on Fedora - I'd like to see it run on EL6,
too.