Re: Turning off tests leads to a different store item

[Felix Lechner]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 07 2023, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:

>> Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Those shortfalls are a consequence of our packaging habits. In an ideal
>>> world, would running a test suite ever build a different derivation?
>
> You seem to be confusing 'derivation', which is the build recipe
> description that a package "compiles" to, with the package output, the
> result of executing the derivation.

Maybe that comment was not a response to mine. Either way, please allow
me to restate what I meant:

A source tree should produce the same derivation regardless of whether
build-time tests ran or didn't. It should also pull the same substitute.

Kind regards
Felix