bug#31213: [PATCH] gnu: gst-plugins-base: Disable tests that create network

[Roel Janssen]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Dear Guix,
>>
>> The build for gst-plugins-base is failing, breaking the builds of quite
>> a few dependent packages.  The attached patch disables the two tests
>> that are failing.
>
> I cannot reproduce this failure, and on Hydra everything is fine:
>
> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/gst-plugins-base-1.12.4.x86_64-linux
>
> Strange that it fails on your machine, it suggests some "impurity" in
> the build environment.  Can you try to figure out why it does not work?
>
>> It seems that both tests attempt to set-up or connect to a TCP socket on
>> "localhost".  Would this work in the build environment?
>
> TCP sockets on localhost are normally fine, as long as they don't use
> getaddrinfo() (I've been thinking about adding support for that).

Right..  So the patch is not needed.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen