building engine artificats from a posted patch?

[Martin Mucha]

Thank you very much!
M.

----- Original Message -----
> The options are combination of the distro and branch, I added the
> job[1](el7, 4.0), to use it press 'build' from Jenkins's GUI and fill
> in the GERRIT_REFSPEC to the needed patch.
> As the build-artifacts job run on the limited resources of bare metal
> hypervisors I restricted it for now to one concurrent job.
> 
> On infra side, I guess this can be yamlized later if it becomes
> useful(just copy-paste of the current build-artifacts removing some
> stages).
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-engine_4.0_build-artifacts-el7-x86_64-manual/
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 06:32:47AM -0400, Martin Mucha wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Adding to Matin's explaination: He posted https://gerrit.ovirt.org/65793
> > and would like it be tested. It would be wonderful if you can add a job
> > that makes it possible to build el7 rpms from that patch, to bet
> > executed by QE.
> >
> > So yes, I'd appreciate if you can add such a -manual job for building
> > ovirt-engine. I'm not sure I know "which job" precisely is that, though.
> > Can you tell me which are the options?
> >
> > Regrards,
> > Dan.
>