I believe, they were not forced for R stuff until very recently. I found a solution which should work to fix running tests for R packages even when tests are unsupported and forced to run, but this situation is quite fragile.
For the context: there are some R packages which are in themselves trivial, but required as dependencies for some important ones. By default R checks require all optional dependencies to be installed, which sometimes means a lot of stuff to build. Adding every such optional dependency to MacPorts just to support testing is a) practically unfeasible and b) hardly needed. So while I tend to add support for testing wherever find it important or wherever it does not take too much of effort, there are a number of packages which have test.run no – and that is unlikely to change. While default behavior of R can be changed via passing a variable in environment, this a) does not guarantee that some tests won’t fail due to missing optional dependency nevertheless and b) is not clearly a superior choice, since it becomes less clear if some optional dependencies are missing (which we may care about in specific cases). > On Feb 29, 2024, at 2:17 PM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > > On 29/2/2024 17:01, Sergey Fedorov wrote: >> There is something broken with CI now. >> Tests phase must not be run when it is disabled (test.run is set to no), but >> it is. > > Built-in tests can always be run. See 2.9 release notes. > > - Josh
