Several tests requiring internet fail on Ubuntu build machines

[barry@…]

The following tests which require internet connection fail on the Ubuntu build machines. I've commented them out so that django can be built for Ubuntu. There should probably a better way to skip them when there's no internet, or write them so that external access isn't required.

• test_urlfield_3
• test_urlfield_4
• test_correct_url_value_passes

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Yes, there are better ways -- we can and do use the @skipUnless and @skipIf decorators, and we use mock services when possible. In this case, nobody has got around to providing a patch that either skips/expected fails the test when there's no network connection, or provides a mock for urllib (or whatever needs to be mocked in this case).

A patch to do either of these would certainly be welcome; I'd probably prefer a mock to a skipped test, but I could live with either if a mock turns out to be too hard to achieve.

Also - this is the second report (c.f. #16686) where you've referred to "the" Ubuntu build machines. Which build machines are you referring to here?

[Ramiro Morales]

Actually, we've solved this in trunk (see #16189 and [16451]. I haven't backported that to the 1.3.X (actually I'm not backporting anything except fixes for regressions introduced in the 1.3 development cycle).

[Ramiro Morales]

Duplicate of #16189.

[anonymous]

These machines, which build packages from source for both the Ubuntu archive and PPAs.

​https://launchpad.net/builders/