Re: Convert sepgsql tests to TAP

On 24.07.24 18:29, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On 7/24/24 4:31 PM, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
>> I have not yet set up an VM with selinux to try the patch out for real 
>> but will do so later.
> 
> I almost got the tests running but it required way too many manual steps 
> to just get there and I gave up after just getting segfaults. I had to 
> edit sepgsql-regtest.te because sepgsql-regtest.pp would not build 
> otherwise on Debian bookworm, but after I had done that instead of 
> getting test failures as I expected I just got segfaults. Maybe those 
> are caused by an incorrect sepgsql-regtest.pp but this was not nice at 
> all to try to get running for someone like me who does not know selinux 
> well.
> 
> Peter, what did you do to get the tests running? And should we fix these 
> tests to make them more user friendly?

In my experience, the tests (both the old and the proposed new) only 
work on Red Hat-like platforms.  I had also tried on Debian but decided 
that it won't work.