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#44491
Support GUIX_DISABLE_NETWORK_TESTS environment variable
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On 2020-11-10, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2020-11-10, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org> skribis:
>>> On 2020-11-08, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org> skribis:
>>>>
>>>>> If this could be considered for the upcoming 1.2 release, that would be
>>>>> appreciated, though I can also carry the patches in Debian...
>>>>
>>>> Yay! It should be doable, let’s see.
>>>
>>> It seems like a simpler workaround is to pass RES_OPTIONS=attempts:0,
>>> which should disable name resolution, and thus the network checks will
>>> fail.
>>>
>>> With the RES_OPTIONS workaround, the changes to guix/tests.scm
>>> network-reachable are no longer needed ... i think. :)
>>
>> Oooh nice, the wonders of glibc!
>>
>>> Might still be worth refactoring some of *.sh tests to use common
>>> functions, since the code is basically copied and pasted in several
>>> different places.
>>
>> Yes, that’s still a good idea. Would you like to adjust your patch
>> accordingly?
>
> Thanks for the review!
>
> Updated patch attached, with changes:
>
> * Copyright header added to common.sh.
> * New function skip_if_network_unreachable in common.sh
> * Dropped GUIX_DISABLE_NETWORK_TESTS in favor of using
> RES_OPTIONS=attempts:0.
> * Updated tests to use skip_if_network_unreachable or network_reachable.
...
> diff --git a/tests/common.sh b/tests/common.sh
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..f9dd3c2c59
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tests/common.sh
...
> +network_reachable() {
> + if ! guile -c '(getaddrinfo "www.gnu.org" "80" AI_NUMERICSERV)' 2> /dev/null; then
> + return 0
> + fi
> +}
Ooops. I inverted that check... probably "if guile -c ..." and probably
should return 1 or something if it isn't... or maybe 77?
anyways... testing again.
live well,
vagrant
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