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authorRobert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl>2022-06-15 18:05:48 +0200
committerRobert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl>2022-09-24 17:38:08 +0100
commit537f45637367352b33d2979095765a0bdd2b0d00 (patch)
treeebe1300ab10f8df85ca1877d14502442b9ad63f5 /nixos/doc/manual/development
parent6e2f7539893ebabc92ccb1421a84fccf09b2052b (diff)
nixos/doc/running-nixos-tests: Simplify running instructions with nixosTests
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-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/development/running-nixos-tests.section.md17
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/development/running-nixos-tests.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/development/running-nixos-tests.section.md
index 1bec023b613aa..33076f5dc2a7d 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/development/running-nixos-tests.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/development/running-nixos-tests.section.md
@@ -2,22 +2,11 @@
 
 You can run tests using `nix-build`. For example, to run the test
 [`login.nix`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/tests/login.nix),
-you just do:
+you do:
 
 ```ShellSession
-$ nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos/tests/login.nix>'
-```
-
-or, if you don't want to rely on `NIX_PATH`:
-
-```ShellSession
-$ cd /my/nixpkgs/nixos/tests
-$ nix-build login.nix
-…
-running the VM test script
-machine: QEMU running (pid 8841)
-…
-6 out of 6 tests succeeded
+$ cd /my/git/clone/of/nixpkgs
+$ nix-build -A nixosTests.login
 ```
 
 After building/downloading all required dependencies, this will perform