would it be possible to use cabal sandboxes to sandbox the cabal tests?

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle...@mega-nerd.com>wrote:

> Johan Tibell wrote:
>
> > I've been running a Jenkins build bot for cabal for quite a while:
> >
> >     http://ci.johantibell.com/job/cabal/
> >
> > It's not as good as it could be, because the Cabal test suite isn't in
> the
> > best shape. In particular the InternalLibrary tests are failing at the
> > moment and I think it's because the tests actually modify the shared
> > package DB (i.e. the user DB)!
>
> You might be able to trick cabal into using another one by overriding
> $HOME at the start of each test run.
>
> Erik
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