02/03: pack: Adjust test to cope with GC'd profiles.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit df6f86a0cb652172329597701683cfa837ddced2
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon May 7 10:41:33 2018 +0200

    pack: Adjust test to cope with GC'd profiles.
    
    Previous "test -x opt/gnu/bin/guile" would fail if the store item
    "opt/gnu/bin" points to had been GC'd.
    
    * tests/guix-pack.sh: Replace "test -x" with "test -L" to deal with
    store items that have been reclaimed.
---
 tests/guix-pack.sh | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/guix-pack.sh b/tests/guix-pack.sh
index 1b63b95..d34f720 100644
--- a/tests/guix-pack.sh
+++ b/tests/guix-pack.sh
@@ -41,12 +41,14 @@ guix pack --bootstrap guile-bootstrap
 # Build a tarball with a symlink.
 the_pack="`guix pack --bootstrap -S /opt/gnu/bin=bin guile-bootstrap`"
 
-# Try to extract it.
+# Try to extract it.  Note: we cannot test whether /opt/gnu/bin/guile itself
+# exists because /opt/gnu/bin may be an absolute symlink to a store item that
+# has been GC'd.
 test_directory="`mktemp -d`"
 trap 'rm -rf "$test_directory"' EXIT
 cd "$test_directory"
 tar -xf "$the_pack"
-test -x opt/gnu/bin/guile
+test -L opt/gnu/bin
 
 is_available () {
     # Use the "type" shell builtin to see if the program is on PATH.