Commit 0aa90433 authored by Doron Behar's avatar Doron Behar
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doc/meta: still mention testVersion near the installCheckPhase recommendation

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* We can run and debug a `passthru.tests` independently, after the package was built (useful if it takes a long time).

* `installCheckPhase` adds overhead to each build



It is also possible to still use `passthru.tests` to test the version, with [testVersion](#tester-testVersion).



For more on how to write and run package tests, see [`pkgs/README.md`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/README.md#package-tests).



#### NixOS tests {#var-meta-tests-nixos}