Subject: [bug#53389] [PATCH 0/9] Replace some mocking with with-http-server*, avoid hardcoding ports,

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:11:17 +0100

Hi,

Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> skribis:

> (see <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53060#3>.)
>
> by extending with-http-server to with-http-server* to allow arbitrary
> request handlers and extending with-http-server to allow verifying the
> URI of a request.
>
> tests/cpan.scm has been modified to verify the URIs.
> tests/import-github.scm and tests/minetest.scm have been modified to
> avoid mocking.

Great, I’ll take a look.

> Somewhat unrelated, tests/lint.scm, tests/cpan.scm and
> tests/challenge.scm have been modified to avoid hard coding ports,
> as a follow-up to commit c05ceaf2b650d090cf39a048193505cb4e6bd257:
>
>  [...]
>  Previously, test cases could fail if some process was listening
>  at a hard-coded port. This patch eliminates most of these
>  potential failures, by automatically assigning an unbound port. 
>  This should allow for building multiple guix trees in parallel
>  outside a build container, though this is currently untested.
>  [...]
>
> After this patch series, there's to my knowledge only one instance of
> hardcoded ports remaining, in tests/lint.scm ("home-page: Connection
> refused").

That’s a much welcome change.

Thank you!

Ludo’.