Re: Disabling authentication checks for tests in local Guix checkouts

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Ada,

Ada Stevenson <adanskana@gmail.com> skribis:

> I'm currently trying to help test the changes to GRUB submitted in
> issue #71348[1]. Unfortunately, `make check`, whilst building the
> local Guix channel, authenticates every commit. That means commits not
> signed by people in `guix-authorizations` will stop the channel from
> building and prevents running any of the tests.

Bummer.  :-(

> I have tried to fix the issue by writing a patch:

This patch looks like the right thing to do.

I’m not sure how to integrate it though: in the general case, we
probably want to keep authentication enabled by default, but how to
allow users to easily disable it when using a personal checkout?

> Initially this seems like it works, as it starts to index all of the
> commits in the local checkout, which didn't occur beforehand, instead
> immediately giving a `Git error: cannot locate remote-tracking branch
> 'origin/keyring'` (I've run `git fetch -a`, and my Savannah remote is
> called `origin`).

Guix caches clones under ~/.cache/guix/checkout.  It may be that there’s
a clone of your local repo there, but that the clone itself lack a copy
of the ‘keyring’ branch?  (You can run ‘git fetch -a’ in there.)

Thanks for testing!

Ludo’.