would it be possible to use cabal sandboxes to sandbox the cabal tests?


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
Johan Tibell wrote:

> I've been running a Jenkins build bot for cabal for quite a while:
>
>     http://ci.johantibell.com/job/cabal/
>
> It's not as good as it could be, because the Cabal test suite isn't in the
> best shape. In particular the InternalLibrary tests are failing at the
> moment and I think it's because the tests actually modify the shared
> package DB (i.e. the user DB)!

You might be able to trick cabal into using another one by overriding
$HOME at the start of each test run.

Erik
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