Re: building but skipping tests?

[Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>]

"Jonathan McHugh" <indieterminacy@libre.brussels> writes:

> Hi Joshua,
>
> Is there any published guidance covering what test responses are considered as flagging up? 
>
> For instance, would problems be sent to bug-guix@gnu.org as a matter of principle? And what should and should not be included?

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Tracking-Bugs-and-Patches.html

There's no hard fast rule about what should or should not be sent.  If
it feels like a bug, go ahead and submit it.

It's typically good to put the output of "guix describe" and "guix
system describe" and what hardware you are using when describing a bug.

:)

>
> Kind regards,
>
> ====================
> Jonathan McHugh
> indieterminacy@libre.brussels
>
> September 21, 2021 8:46 AM, "Joshua Branson" <jbranso@dismail.de> wrote:
>
>> Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi, if I try to install a package and that may trigger building a
>>> number of dependencies (when no substitutes for some reason but that
>>> is outside the concern of this question), I notice that since the
>>> build processes would run the tests by default, that takes a lot of
>>> time. I wonder if it is possible to skip tests when building
>>> locally? Of course running tests are good but if I am not a
>>> developer of the packages being built running the tests may not be of
>>> much utility to me.
>> 
>> Note that you can disable the tests. BUT enabling said tests, lets you
>> find errors, which you can report, which is really valuable to guix
>> developers. :)
>> 
>>> Thanks for the info on this.
>> 
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