[Swan-dev] testing libipsecconf

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

[late reply]

> [tl;dr] see my actual questions, highlighted with ==>

> Now I need to test if my changes are sound.  So I want to use
> testing/scripts/readwriteconf-*
>
> ==> Do these tests actually run in "make check"?  They don't seem to in mine.

Not yet. We could put it into a kvm test for now and run the tests.

> I want to test them on my desktop machine.  It doesn't have all the
> KVM paraphernalia.  But I would think that that ought to be OK for
> testing scripts.

> I can get rid of this problem by changing testing/scripts/readwriteconf-01/runit.sh:
> -args="--rootdir=$ROOTDIR/testing/baseconfigs/all --config $ROOTDIR/testing/baseconfigs/west/etc/ipsec.conf --verbose --verbose"
> +args="--rootdir=$ROOTDIR --config $ROOTDIR/testing/baseconfigs/west/etc/ipsec.conf --verbose --verbose"
> This line dates back to 2006 October 11

That was in uml days, so yes we probably never fixed that up.

> ==> Is this only a problem in my context?

Nope

> ==> Has this test ever worked?

Years ago.

> ==> Is these something wrong with my fix to runit.sh?

I don't think so

> ==> what is the best way of testing libipsecconf changes?

running the ipsec readwriteconf tests.

Paul