[Nix-dev] Re: [PATCH] Fix git-send-email.

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 08:13:23AM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 04:55:57PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> 
> >unfortunately, two of the Perl packages that were added in order to
> >support "git send-email" don't build on the build farm:
> >
> > http://hydra.nixos.org/build/409377
> >
> >It appears that the build phase works fine, but the regression test
> >suites don't. Do you happen to have an idea what might be causing this
> >problem?
> 
> Does Hydra do something to prevent network tests?  Both of these
The chrooted builds at hydra (as those chrooted in a usual nixos with chroot
builds enabled) don't include resolv.conf, and are not run as root. I'm not sure
if its hosts include localhost.
Maybe this makes some things clearer?

Regards,
Lluís.