Quoting Stephen Smalley (sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx): > On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 11:31 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 21:55 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Today i had the opportunity to meet James Morris from Red Hat at FOSS.in > > > held at Bangalore, India. After his talks on Se-Linux, we were > > > discussing about the Policy Reference support for Se-linux available in > > > LTP under the directory: > > > ltp/testcases/kernel/security/selinux-testsuite/ > > > > > > Though i have released RHEL5 EAL4+ Certification Testsuites from IBM, i > > > have not seen the testcases under: > > > ltp/testcases/kernel/security/selinux-testsuite/ > > > updated for more than an year. I am not aware exactly about the reason > > > for the same. I would like to request you send me any updates that you > > > may want to give to LTP for your selinux-testsuite. > > > > Can somebody give me some direction on this ?? > > What kind of direction are you seeking? > > We gave the selinux testsuite to IBM at their request, and they ported > it over to the LTP and submitted it there. Joy Latten was involved in > the porting; I've cc'd her above. So the question is who should update the testsuite. This is not just an issue for selinux, but for all the ltp tests. One could say it's Joy because she submitted the testcases. But let me warn you that that attitude will definitely decrease the likelyhood of testcases being submitted to LTP. (It'll certainly deter me) One could say it should be the selinux community in general, but that community is too large for such an answer to be helpful, and it may not be fair since they can say "we didn't submit that." One could say it should be the reference policy maintainer, because I suspect refpolicy updates will be the biggest cause of breakage - but that isn't fair to him since again he didn't submit it. One might say it should be the ltp community - after the biggest advantage of submitting to LTP should be some free maintenance. However it likely doesn't have the needed expertise. Anyway I think there is value to having the selinux testsuite. Though one problem with having it in LTP is that most LTP runs are done on machines which are not set up right for selinux. I personally haven't had enough potential target machines to be able to run the tests regularly. So I don't even know whether anyone has run ltp/testcases/kernel/security/selinux-testsuite/ in the last year. Joy might know though. So given that I personally don't know who to pin down, and given that I don't have time to maintain the testsuite by myself, if I could get two or three other people to volunteer to help out, I wouldn't mind being part of a group responsible for the maintenance. For starters, I finally have a fedora 8 vm set up which once I'm done with another test i can use to try out the existing testsuite. Hopefully that'll be later this week (no guarantees). I'll report on the results. -serge -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
