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bashCompletion: speed-up test execution by using xdist #87189

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@andir andir commented May 7, 2020

Motivation for this change

Currently the tests take an eternity and are also sometimes flaky. By
following upstream in using xdist for parallel test execution we at
least get the feedback cycle down. On my machine that means instead of
running this for ~25min it runs in 1 minute and 10 seconds.

cc maintainers @peti @xfix

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

Currently the tests take an eternity and are also sometimes flaky. By
following upstream in using xdist for parallel test execution we at
least get the feedback cycle down. On my machine that means instead of
running this for ~25min it runs in 1 minute and 10 seconds.
@andir andir changed the base branch from master to staging-18.03 May 7, 2020 14:17
@andir andir changed the base branch from staging-18.03 to staging May 7, 2020 14:17
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andir commented May 7, 2020

Oops, fat fingered the wrong staging branch.

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andir commented May 7, 2020

@ofborg build bashCompletion

@Mic92 Mic92 merged commit af8d490 into NixOS:staging May 7, 2020
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