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Nix build fails at `remote-import` test

See original GitHub issue

Thanks for this project!

On current main (ce01be3), I’m seeing that nix build fails while running the tasty test suite. Looking at the logs, the failure appears to be

remote-import-input - error:                            FAIL
          Missing golden value.

(expected behavior: pass, or possibly skip this test when building with Nix?)

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Created a year ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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Gabriella439commented, Jul 1, 2022

Alright, this should be fixed now. I ended up going with changing the default build target to not build tests

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mcwittcommented, Jun 29, 2022

I’m assuming the issue is that the failing tests require network access, but this is not allowed in a sandboxed build, which I think is the default on NixOS.

I looked around a bit for a workaround (found, e.g. this and this). The two workarounds I’ve come up with are

Disabling the sandbox (e.g. with nix build --option sandbox false)
Building the graceNoTests attribute instead

Wondering if it’d make sense to add a note to the readme about disabling sandboxing, or potentially change the default build target to graceNoTests? I’d be happy to PR this.