Re: [PATCH] gnu: gdk-pixbuf: Disable pixbuf-scale test.

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 04:17:49PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:25:41PM +0000, Jookia wrote:
> > On systems with little ram (2G in my case) the pixbuf-scale test will either
> > freeze the system of cause excessive swapping without the test every completing.
> 
> The patch looks good to me, but it would be nice to have another opinion.

I would like another option besides disabling the test unconditionally.
We already have several packages that can simply not be built on
hardware like Jookia's, and although it's an unfortunate situation, I
don't think we should start disabling tests for the substitutes we build
for this reason. Running all the tests possible allows us to provide
valuable feedback to upstream.

How about a comment in the package definition describing the RAM
requirement and how to disable the test, so that users on less powerful
hardware can make the change themselves?

> 
> In any case, it should probably be applied once we have a bit more build
> power, since it causes substantial package rebuilds.
> 
> Andreas
> 
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