[libvirt] [libvirt-jenkins-ci PATCH 03/18] ansible: Add libosinfo project

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 09:07:15AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 17:04 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > +- name: '{{ project }}: Run sanity checks'
> > > +  command: '{{ make }} -j{{ smp }} syntax-check'
> > > +  args:
> > > +    chdir: '{{ project }}'
> > > +  when:
> > > +    - project == 'libosinfo'
> > 
> > This looks like its duplicating the rules we already have
> > defined in the jobs/ files for Jenkins. Why do we need
> > this ?
> 
> It's explained in the commit message for patch 2:
> 
>   Building projects is entirely controlled by Jenkins in a production
>   environment, but it can be useful to trigger builds via Ansible
>   during development to figure out build dependencies and for sanity
>   checking purposes.
> 
> I'm not adamant on keeping this around, as it was mainly a tool
> for me to use during development, but I figure it might come in
> handy later on when some project picks up new (optional) build
> dependencies or we need to add a new project, and I'd rather not
> have to reinvent the wheel when that happens.
> 
> Note that none of those tasks is executed unless you manually set
> the 'build' variable to true, so they will not interfere in any
> way with regular CI usage.

The rules we have defined in the jobs & projects files are in nice
parsable format. Could we have something that just reads that data
and then generates these ansible rules for building outside jenkins

Regards,
Daniel
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