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| author | Antoine Eiche <lewo@abesis.fr> | 2021-07-10 16:05:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Antoine Eiche <lewo@abesis.fr> | 2021-07-12 22:57:01 +0200 |
| commit | a0f9688a31dd9f4b6f9d252ba06f8d1acef914af (patch) | |
| tree | 94b7cd246366ce02b0b5fa677074d6547136f36c /docs | |
| parent | a9f87ca461a1f0e23e85a1ba8c696672ed9e11e2 (diff) | |
Switch CI to Nix flakes
We also move tests to Flakes.
This would allow users to submit PRs with a fork of nixpkgs when they
want to test nixpkgs PRs against SNM.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/howto-develop.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/howto-develop.rst b/docs/howto-develop.rst index b12c9b9..5eb4e57 100644 --- a/docs/howto-develop.rst +++ b/docs/howto-develop.rst @@ -9,13 +9,23 @@ You can also chat with us on the Libera IRC channel ``#nixos-mailserver``. Run NixOS tests --------------- -You can run the testsuite via +To run the test suite, you need to enable `Nix Flakes +<https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes#Installing_flakes>`. + +You can then run the testsuite via + +:: + + $ nix flake check -L + +Since Nix doesn't garantee your machine have enough resources to run +all test VMs in parallel, some tests can fail. You would then haev to +run tests manually. For instance: :: - $ nix-build tests -A external.nixpkgs_20_03 - $ nix-build tests -A internal.nixpkgs_unstable - ... + $ nix build .#hydraJobs.x86_64-linux.external-unstable -L + Contributing to the documentation --------------------------------- |