While the alias is available after enabling the unit, we don't
actually do that in our testing environment (adding a symlink manually
would work too, then again, why not just use the proper name?).
We could make the same change for charon (actually setting it for charon
in strongswan.conf.testing would work for charon-systemd too), however,
there are dozens of test cases that currently set charondebug in
ipsec.conf.
The change in c423d0e8a1 ("testing: Fix race in tnc/tnccs-20-pdp-pt-tls
scenario") is not really ideal as now the vici plugin might not yet be
ready when `swanctl --load-creds` is called. Perhaps starting charon
before Apache causes enough delay.
Once we switch to charon-systemd this isn't a problem anymore as starting the
unit will block until everything is up and ready. Also, the individual
swanctl calls will be redundant as the default service unit calls --load-all.
But start scripts do run before charon-systemd signals that the daemon is
ready, so using these would work too then.
aacf84d837 ("testing: Add expect-connection calls for all tests and
hosts") removed the expect-connection call for the non-existing aaa
connection. However, because the credentials were loaded asynchronously
via start-script the clients might have been connecting when the secrets
were not yet loaded. As `swanctl --load-creds` is a synchronous call
this change avoids that issue without having to add a sleep or failing
expect-connection call.
It is still compatible with the current release as the config in
sites-available will be ignored, while conf-enabled does not exist and
is not included in the main config.
The scenarios will work with new or old base images as long as the version
in use is included as product in the master data (src/libimcv/imv/data.sql).
Some fetcher plugins (such as curl) might build upon OpenSSL to implement
HTTPS fetching. As we set (and can't unset) threading callbacks in our
openssl plugin, we must ensure that OpenSSL functions don't get called after
openssl plugin unloading.
We achieve that by loading curl and all other fetcher plugins after the base
crypto plugins, including openssl.
Tobias Brunner