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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Saku Laesvuori <saku@laesvuori.fi>,  Vagrant Cascadian
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Subject: Re: Turning off tests leads to a different store item
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Hi Simon,

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> I think the lower fruits are in looking at making the test suite of the
>> few common offenders more robust (using libfaketime or the likes) to
>> prevent (re)occurrences of time bombs in the future.
>
> I agree.  On a side note, one of the issue is the time of some tests.
> Sometimes, packaging is frustrating: build takes ages, then you fix some
> tests, think it will be good, re-launch =E2=80=9Cguix build=E2=80=9D, ano=
ther test
> failing, repeat.  It could nice to be able to cache the result of the
> build phase.

I usually end up working in the /tmp/guix-build-* failed build of a
package for these situations; then I don't need to rebuild the whole
thing for each test suite run, and can test changes directly without
proper patches while working toward a fix.

--=20
Thanks,
Maxim