elmarco

How will the TSS be different after this patch set? What does it do. It installs the regressions tests on the system. Is this trying to run the TSS regression test against a TPM? To test the TSS? To test the TPM? Is it creating dependencies? The tests don't run by themself, they need to be run by the user (or some automated tool). If you're trying to test a TPM install, the TSS regression test coverage is incomplete. TCG has a more complete test suite available to TCG members. swtpm is tested against...

Since swtpm v0.10, it can run against the installed imbtpm20tss regression tests (see https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/commit/603396664f830c273581d3b364ed7139b8293639) I updated the patch series to add more comments. Let me know if something is unclear or could be improved. thanks

Hi @kagoldman, happy new year! can you check this series again? thanks

Hi @kagoldman , can I do something to make progress? thanks

@kagoldman do you have further questions? thanks

swtpm runs the TSS regression tests against its emulator. They are the tests we need to have installed as done by this series. Tests shouldn't need to modify or install system certificates. Currently they don't run anyway since they need "/home/kgold/tss2/utils/certificates/". See also "utils/reg.sh: skip rootcerts checks if /home/kgold missing" patch. The use case is clear: allow distributions to run TSS regression tests against swtpm. And you shouldn't worry about distribution policies, about what...

The goal is to run the tests from installation. Currently, the tests are not installed. This is what this series achieves: install tests and make them usable from swtpm test suite. 'swtpm currently fetch the sources of ibmtss': it literally fetches and compile the source from git: https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm/blob/master/tests/test_tpm2_ibmtss2#L54 this is not allowed by distributions builder.

@kagoldman I missed your reply.. sourceforge isn't very good at notifying me by mail it seems. Perhaps @me is necessary. Sure, I can document better what the patches do. They are quite simple and self-explanatory in general. The whole purpose is to run the TSS & swtpm tests not within the project source tree, but when installed. Tests can then be packaged and run more easily by users. "distros can't easily vendor extra software": swtpm currently fetch the sources of ibmtss, and patches it during...