Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > Clément Lassieur <[email protected]> skribis: > >> Tests depending on 'guix-current' are expensive in terms of CPU and >> storage usage since we need to build (current-guix) and then store a >> couple of full system images. > > [...] > >> Is there another way to get those tests to work without depending on >> 'guix-current'? > > These tests are indeed expensive. However the motivation here is > precisely to test a complete installation procedure using the current > Guix in the installation image. If we were to change that we’d be > testing something different and much less interesting. > > So I think there’s not much we can do here. > > Does that make sense?
Yes it does :-) Thank you for the reply! > (Note that all the other system tests use just whatever snapshot the > ‘guix’ package refers to, which is good enough for them because they > don’t test things where Guix itself is involved.) > > Thanks, > Ludo’.
