Re: building but skipping tests?

["Jonathan McHugh" <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>]

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?

Kind regards,


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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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