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[PATCH] gnu: gst-plugins-base: Disable tests that create network

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From: Roel Janssen <roel <at> gnu.org>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 31213-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#31213] [PATCH] gnu: gst-plugins-base: Disable tests that
 create network
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:16:35 +0200

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:

> Roel Janssen <roel <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Dear Guix,
>>
>> The build for gst-plugins-base is failing, breaking the builds of quite
>> a few dependent packages.  The attached patch disables the two tests
>> that are failing.
>
> I cannot reproduce this failure, and on Hydra everything is fine:
>
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/gst-plugins-base-1.12.4.x86_64-linux
>
> Strange that it fails on your machine, it suggests some "impurity" in
> the build environment.  Can you try to figure out why it does not work?
>
>> It seems that both tests attempt to set-up or connect to a TCP socket on
>> "localhost".  Would this work in the build environment?
>
> TCP sockets on localhost are normally fine, as long as they don't use
> getaddrinfo() (I've been thinking about adding support for that).

Right..  So the patch is not needed.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen

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