From 124d108d7d81aeb18053bc0315182e7889ee7148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Ostrouchov <chris.ostrouchov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:00:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] pythonPackages.pytest-mpl: refactor fix broken python 2 test

---
 pkgs/development/python-modules/pytest-mpl/default.nix | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytest-mpl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytest-mpl/default.nix
index c3bd4c59f049..0baaa9c5dfca 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytest-mpl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytest-mpl/default.nix
@@ -25,11 +25,15 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   ];
 
   checkPhase = ''
+    export HOME=$(mktemp -d)
+    mkdir -p $HOME/.config/matplotlib
+    echo "backend: ps" > $HOME/.config/matplotlib/matplotlibrc
+
     pytest
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "pytest plugin to help with testing figures output from Matplotlib";
+    description = "Pytest plugin to help with testing figures output from Matplotlib";
     homepage = https://github.com/matplotlib/pytest-mpl;
     license = licenses.bsd3;
     maintainers = [ maintainers.costrouc ];