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From: 45mg <45mg.writes@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: handling package tests requiring root?
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:14:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sepzf9dj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875xmy2kef.fsf@wolfsden.cz>

Hi Tomas,

I was curious how Nix handles this, so I asked about it on the #nixos
IRC. It looks like they run such tests in a VM. These are called NixOS
tests, and they seem to be the equivalent of our system tests - they
have to be run manually, separately from regular package tests.

So unless someone comes up with something innovative, it looks like
that's the best answer to this question - figure out a minimal
`operating-system` declaration that works for whatever you're testing,
and use it to add a test in `(gnu tests ...)`.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-04  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-01 10:13 handling package tests requiring root? 45mg
2025-01-01 23:18 ` Tomas Volf
2025-01-04  5:14   ` 45mg [this message]
2025-01-04 17:18 ` Leo Famulari

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