pyscf: disable parts of test suite and aarch64 #150952
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Motivation for this change
The PySCF package has some hardware-dependent numerical problems, that leads to faulty behaviour on at least AArch64. It works fine on x86-64, though. Also, build problems caused by too many open files have been observed. After all attempts in #144253 have not solved the problem, at least on Hydra, this PR disables the particular tests, that may cause the problem and also restricts the package to x86-64. The problem has been reported upstream, but this is the currently feasible workaround. Note, that I could not reproduce any of the errors on my machines, and am therefore not able to ultimately test if this solves the problem entirely.
Things done
sandbox = true
set innix.conf
? (See Nix manual)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD"
. Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage./result/bin/
)nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.sh
to update generated release notes