Subject: bug#67532: “make check” requires network

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:42:30 +0100

Hi,

Simon Tournier <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Running ’make check’ without network leads to errors, for instance.

[...]

> $ cat tests/derivations.log
> substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable
> substitute: guix substitute: warning: authentication and authorization of substitutes disabled!
> building path(s) `/home/simon/src/guix/guix/test-tmp/store/qkg9bx9adcv98n9z40dvw68mip3vg1dg-bash'
>
> Starting download of /home/simon/src/guix/guix/test-tmp/store/qkg9bx9adcv98n9z40dvw68mip3vg1dg-bash
>>>From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/gnu/packages/bootstrap/i686-linux/bash?id=44f07d1dc6806e97c4e9ee3e6be883cc59dc666e...
> In procedure getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

I had come to forget about that because for the ‘guix’ package
(obviously built in a network-less environment), we “pre-seed” the store
with the 4 or 5 files needed to run the test suite.

So I propose:

diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi
index 0833b5d32c..0072e5d42d 100644
--- a/doc/contributing.texi
+++ b/doc/contributing.texi
@@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ Building from Git
 hack on Guix:
 
 @example
-guix shell -D guix -CPW
+guix shell -D guix -CPWN
 @end example
 
 or even, from within a Git worktree for Guix:
 
 @example
-guix shell -CPW
+guix shell -CPWN
 @end example
 
 If @option{-C} (short for @option{--container}) is not supported on your

(And not going back to ‘--pure’ because as we know it depends too much
of the goodwill of the user’s shell.)

WDYT?

Ludo’.