From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] gnu: Add python-dulwich. Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:34:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20170119103436.187f97a5@scratchpost.org> References: <8737gxxza3.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <20170118075305.29573-1-dannym@scratchpost.org> <20170118075305.29573-4-dannym@scratchpost.org> <87y3y88dj5.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41634) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cU97E-0004w2-By for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:34:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cU97A-0004al-Dk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:34:44 -0500 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:50917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cU97A-0004ZK-7J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:34:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y3y88dj5.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Marius Bakke Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org > Why is this necessary? Git is available in PATH, no? Yes, but their tests use Popen with a custom environment which doesn't include the PATH variable at all. Also, if one messes it up the git invocation tests will be skipped and "succeed"!