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| author | Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> | 2022-05-31 09:59:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> | 2022-05-31 09:59:57 +0000 |
| commit | 9ff36293d1e428cd7bf03e8d4b03611b6d361c28 (patch) | |
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| parent | 1c4fcd0d4b0541e674ee56ace1053e23e562cc80 (diff) | |
| parent | ddc3c396a51918043bb0faa6f676abd9562be62c (diff) | |
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Last good Nixpkgs for Weston+nouveau? archive
I came this commit hash to terwiz[m] on IRC, who is trying to figure out what the last version of Spectrum that worked on their NUC with Nvidia graphics is.
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/development/running-nixos-tests-interactively.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/development/running-nixos-tests-interactively.section.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0e47350a0d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/development/running-nixos-tests-interactively.section.xml @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:id="sec-running-nixos-tests-interactively"> + <title>Running Tests interactively</title> + <para> + The test itself can be run interactively. This is particularly + useful when developing or debugging a test: + </para> + <programlisting> +$ nix-build . -A nixosTests.login.driverInteractive +$ ./result/bin/nixos-test-driver +[...] +>>> +</programlisting> + <para> + You can then take any Python statement, e.g. + </para> + <programlisting language="python"> +>>> start_all() +>>> test_script() +>>> machine.succeed("touch /tmp/foo") +>>> print(machine.succeed("pwd")) # Show stdout of command +</programlisting> + <para> + The function <literal>test_script</literal> executes the entire test + script and drops you back into the test driver command line upon its + completion. This allows you to inspect the state of the VMs after + the test (e.g. to debug the test script). + </para> + <para> + You can re-use the VM states coming from a previous run by setting + the <literal>--keep-vm-state</literal> flag. + </para> + <programlisting> +$ ./result/bin/nixos-test-driver --keep-vm-state +</programlisting> + <para> + The machine state is stored in the + <literal>$TMPDIR/vm-state-machinename</literal> directory. + </para> +</section> |