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49 lines
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This directory contains scripts for testing GNU tar using
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star "test archives". The archives themselves may be obtained
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from http://download.berlios.de/pub/star/testscripts.
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The tests are ignored unless environment variable STAR_TESTSCRIPTS
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is set and points to the directory where the test archives reside.
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Sample usage:
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make STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir check
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The following is a short description of the tests:
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* gtarfail.sh and gtarfile2.tar
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Need gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively. These are POSIX
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compliant tar files that were not accepted by previous versions of
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GNU tar.
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* ustar-big-2g.sh
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Needs ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with
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the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand.
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* ustar-big-8g.sh
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Needs ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing
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files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990)
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format.
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* pax-big-10g.sh
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Needs pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves
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containing very large files (in this case -- 1 GB).
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* qucktest.sh
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A test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. Needs
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the files ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist. Apart
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from them, the `tartest' program from 'star' package is needed.
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This test may be run only with root privileges, so it is a good
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idea to test the contents of ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running
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it.
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Local variables:
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mode: outline
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paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
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end:
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