Provide some examples and scenarios.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani
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guests/README.markdown | 19 +++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/guests/README.markdown b/guests/README.markdown
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+++ b/guests/README.markdown
@@ -46,6 +46,25 @@ related projects, while running
will update all hosts and prepare them to build libvirt both as a native
library and, where supported, as a Windows library using MinGW.
+Once hosts have been prepared following the steps above, you can use
+`lcitool` to perform builds as well: for example, running
+
+lcitool -a build -h '*debian*' -p libvirt-python -b master
+
+will fetch libvirt-python's `master` branch and build it on all Debian
+hosts.
+
+This feature can be used to validate a series you've been working on
+will not introduce any CI failures when merged: assuming you have a
+personal clone of `$project` hosted somewhere and your changes are in
+the `feature` branch, you can tweak the value of `git_url` in
+`playbooks/build/projects/$project.yml` so that it points to your own
+repository and then run
+
+lcitool -a build -h all -p $project -b feature
+
+to spot issues early.
+
Host setup
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