| 1 | This directory contains scripts for testing GNU tar using
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| 2 | star "test archives". The archives themselves can be obtained
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| 3 | from http://download.berlios.de/pub/star/testscripts.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | The tests are ignored unless environment variable STAR_TESTSCRIPTS
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| 6 | is set and points to the directory where the test archives reside.
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| 7 | Sample usage:
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| 8 |
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| 9 | make STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir check
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| 10 | or
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| 11 | make TESTS_ENVIRONMENT='STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir' check
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| 12 |
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| 13 | The file `quicktest.sh' is a separate test. It is never executed
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| 14 | within `make check' command, you will need to run it manually.
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| 15 | Please, carefully read section `quicktest.sh' below before running
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| 16 | it.
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| 17 |
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| 18 | Following is a short description of the tests:
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| 19 |
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| 20 | * gtarfail.at and gtarfail2.at
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| 21 |
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| 22 | These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively.
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| 23 | These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted
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| 24 | by previous versions of GNU tar.
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| 25 |
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| 26 | * multi-fail.at
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| 27 |
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| 28 | Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar.
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| 29 | These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions
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| 30 | of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option).
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| 31 |
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| 32 | * ustar-big-2g.at
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| 33 |
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| 34 | Requires ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with
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| 35 | the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | * ustar-big-8g.at
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| 38 |
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| 39 | Requires ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing
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| 40 | files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990)
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| 41 | format.
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| 42 |
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| 43 | * pax-big-10g.at
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| 44 |
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| 45 | Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves
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| 46 | containing very large files (in this case -- 10 GB).
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| 47 |
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| 48 | * quicktest.sh
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| 49 |
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| 50 | This is a test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It
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| 51 | requires two files: ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist,
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| 52 | (they usually reside in star/tartest directory), and `tartest' program
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| 53 | (also part of star distribution). The test must be run only with root
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| 54 | privileges, so it is a good idea to test contents of
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| 55 | ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running it.
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| 56 |
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| 57 | If `tartest' is not in your PATH, use TARTEST variable to specify its
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| 58 | full file name. You may pass both STAR_TESTSCRIPTS and TARTEST
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| 59 | variables as command line arguments to quicktest.sh, as shown in
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| 60 | the example below:
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| 61 |
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| 62 | ./quicktest.sh STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir TARTEST=/path/to/tartest
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| 63 |
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| 65 |
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| 66 | Local variables:
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| 67 | mode: outline
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| 68 | paragraph-separate: "[ |
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| 69 | ]*$"
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| 70 | end:
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