Hi, On Wed, 01 Nov 2023 at 11:09, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@reproducible-builds.org> wrote:
>> Please bear with me as I again belabor the same point without receiving >> public support. Building packages should be separate from testing them. > > In general, I agree... sort of. > > I do see value in build-time tests preventing a build from > succeeding... being a way to ensure that a broken build does not > actually get distributed. > > You could completely separate out the tests, and set up some other > mechanism to prevent broken things from getting distributed, but that is > considerably more complicated. I think the complication starts before. :-) Well, hoping to not misunderstand something or miss a point. Currently, the tests are one among many other phases of the build system. Therefore, this would need to be extracted as a separated derivation. Somehow, there is 3 derivations involved when building a package: + fetch source + run build system + graft (optionally) And somehow you would like to split “run build system” (./configure && make && make check)) as two derivations: + run build (./configure && make) + test (make check) If we are here, we could make all the phases as separated derivations. A corollary is that a failure about one phases step would not require to redo all the previous steps. Well, if my understanding is correct, separating the tests would be a piece of work, I guess. :-) Cheers, simon
