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stage: Systems
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group: Distribution
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Building a package for testing
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While developing a new feature or modifying an existing one, it is helpful if an
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installable package (or a Docker image) containing those changes is available
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for testing. For this very purpose, a manual job is provided in the GitLab CI/CD
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pipeline that can be used to trigger a pipeline in the Omnibus GitLab repository
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that will create:
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- A deb package for Ubuntu 16.04, available as a build artifact, and
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- A Docker image, which is pushed to the
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[Omnibus GitLab container registry](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/container_registry)
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(images titled `gitlab-ce` and `gitlab-ee` respectively and image tag is the
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commit which triggered the pipeline).
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When you push a commit to either the GitLab CE or GitLab EE project, the
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pipeline for that commit will have a `build-package` manual action you can
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trigger.
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## Specifying versions of components
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If you want to create a package from a specific branch, commit or tag of any of
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the GitLab components (like GitLab Workhorse, Gitaly, or GitLab Pages), you
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can specify the branch name, commit SHA or tag in the component's respective
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`*_VERSION` file. For example, if you want to build a package that uses the
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branch `0-1-stable`, modify the content of `GITALY_SERVER_VERSION` to
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`0-1-stable` and push the commit. This will create a manual job that can be
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used to trigger the build.
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## Specifying the branch in Omnibus GitLab repository
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In scenarios where a configuration change is to be introduced and Omnibus GitLab
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repository already has the necessary changes in a specific branch, you can build
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a package against that branch through a CI/CD variable named
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`OMNIBUS_BRANCH`. To do this, specify that variable with the name of
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the branch as value in `.gitlab-ci.yml` and push a commit. This will create a
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manual job that can be used to trigger the build.
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