Re: Heads-up: trousers (TPM 1.2) silently orphaned

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On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 4:20 AM Michel Alexandre Salim
<salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 12:35:59PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2021-12-17 at 10:35 -0800, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 10:11:53AM -0800, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > `trousers` got silently orphaned around the time an EPEL9 branch for it
> > > > was requested: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2032258
> > > >
> > > > Looks like we're slowly uncoupling ourselves from it, e.g.
> > > >
> > > > - for ARM, uboot-tools no longer pulls in vboot-utils which pulls in
> > > >   trousers: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/scm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/JAAC32MNLJMMENVJG7QUSKHGZFABLUHX/
> > > >
> > > > - Neal disabled TPM/TSS 1.2 support in strongswan, dropping the trousers
> > > >   dependency, in https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/strongswan/pull-request/13
> > > >
> > > > but there are several dependencies still around (strongswan still shows
> > > > up here as the PR just got merged a few hours ago)
> > > >
> > > I've taken this package for now.
> > >
> > > It's probably OK for most of the trousers dependent to drop their
> > > dependencies on it though, the use case I have in mind is rather
> > > specialized.
> >
> > It does seem to be used by robosignatory (the thing that signs Fedora
> > packages, I think):
>
> Sorry for the late reply! Meant to ask you about this, as I tried and
> find what requires trousers before my first post and didn't see
> robosignatory at all.

I asked Patrick about this last week, it's an old dependency that was
never cleaned up. On a previous generation of HW they used to use a
TPM1 to store bits used by robosignatory but it was never a direct
dependency. That's no longer the case so it can be cleaned up.
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