From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_Sch=c3=a4fer?= Subject: Re: Fwd: Running individual system tests Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:43:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7a1ea893-6ec0-5312-a013-cdc246a1e1e5@danielschaefer.me> <87wod0k59i.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iMRPz-0000LY-FU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 02:43:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iMRPy-0002J9-GR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 02:43:51 -0400 Received: from ciffreo.uberspace.de ([185.26.156.173]:35580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iMRPy-0002HH-6J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2019 02:43:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wod0k59i.fsf@elephly.net> Content-Language: en-US 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Ricardo, For a test of an external system, like something I develop at work, I don't want/need to have Guix with all modules compiled present. I don't want unnecessary steps if they are not necessary. Please refer to my first mail with an example of running a test standalone. I'd like some assistance to make my snippet nicer and not return an error after successfully running the test. Thanks, Daniel On 10/19/19 7:35 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I don’t understand why you would want to run a system test without > building Guix first. > > Could you elaborate? >