On 23-01-2015 14:04:22, Wout Mertens wrote: > I'm thinking that it might be a good idea to have unit tests for the > configuration.nix descriptions. That way we can be more sure that a change > doesn't have unintended consequences.
Really good idea! > For example, we could have tests like "if you set config.foo and > config.bar, the evaluation should fail" and "if you set config.foo then > config.baz should get a value". > One specific use case is the license whitelisting/blacklisting > (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/5892), where we don't ever want to > inadvertently allow forbidden licenses. > Any thoughts on how to implement this? An approach might be a shell script > that runs a few nix-instantiate command lines and expects errors and > values, but how would that integrate with the nixos tests? > Wout. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Kind regards, Matthias Beyer Proudly sent with mutt. Happily signed with gnupg.
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