Disabling http tests for guix

Kagamin spam at here.lot
Fri Feb 16 12:00:18 UTC 2018


On Friday, 16 February 2018 at 06:13:05 UTC, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Two downsides: (1) is you can not assume there is a network on 
> the build machine. We need to be able to build and test 
> packages in isolation on restricted computers to make sure no 
> one can tamper. (2) it allows pulling software, as you state, 
> which changes the state of test system and makes it potentially 
> non-reproducible. I don't think the Guix folks thing that this 
> is the way forward. Impurity is a big no.

Do you mean phobos curl tests? They use a self-contained test 
server, should be pure.


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