Hi Joshua, Is there any published guidance covering what test responses are considered as flagging up?
For instance, would problems be sent to bug-g...@gnu.org as a matter of principle? And what should and should not be included? Kind regards, ==================== Jonathan McHugh indieterminacy@libre.brussels September 21, 2021 8:46 AM, "Joshua Branson" <jbra...@dismail.de> wrote: > Andy Tai <a...@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. > > -- > Joshua Branson (jab in #guix) > Sent from Emacs and Gnus > https://gnucode.me > https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels > https://propernaming.org > "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help > enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
