Add option to skip unit tests when building debs (#9793)

Signed-off-by: Dan Callahan <danc@element.io>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/debian/build_virtualenv b/debian/build_virtualenv
index cad7d16883..21caad90cc 100755
--- a/debian/build_virtualenv
+++ b/debian/build_virtualenv
@@ -50,15 +50,24 @@ PACKAGE_BUILD_DIR="debian/matrix-synapse-py3"
 VIRTUALENV_DIR="${PACKAGE_BUILD_DIR}${DH_VIRTUALENV_INSTALL_ROOT}/matrix-synapse"
 TARGET_PYTHON="${VIRTUALENV_DIR}/bin/python"
 
-# we copy the tests to a temporary directory so that we can put them on the
-# PYTHONPATH without putting the uninstalled synapse on the pythonpath.
-tmpdir=`mktemp -d`
-trap "rm -r $tmpdir" EXIT
+case "$DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS" in
+    *nocheck*)
+        # Skip running tests if "nocheck" present in $DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
+        ;;
+
+    *)
+        # Copy tests to a temporary directory so that we can put them on the
+        # PYTHONPATH without putting the uninstalled synapse on the pythonpath.
+        tmpdir=`mktemp -d`
+        trap "rm -r $tmpdir" EXIT
+
+        cp -r tests "$tmpdir"
 
-cp -r tests "$tmpdir"
+        PYTHONPATH="$tmpdir" \
+            "${TARGET_PYTHON}" -m twisted.trial --reporter=text -j2 tests
 
-PYTHONPATH="$tmpdir" \
-    "${TARGET_PYTHON}" -m twisted.trial --reporter=text -j2 tests
+        ;;
+esac
 
 # build the config file
 "${TARGET_PYTHON}" "${VIRTUALENV_DIR}/bin/generate_config" \