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69 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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or
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make TESTS_ENVIRONMENT='STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir' check
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The file `quicktest.sh' is a separate test. It is never executed
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within `make check' command, you will need to run it manually.
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Please, carefully read section `quicktest.sh' below before running
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it.
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Following is a short description of the tests:
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* gtarfail.at and gtarfail2.at
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These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively.
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These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted
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by previous versions of GNU tar.
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* multi-fail.at
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Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar.
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These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions
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of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option).
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* ustar-big-2g.at
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Requires 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.at
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Requires 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.at
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Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves
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containing very large files (in this case -- 10 GB).
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* quicktest.sh
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This is a test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It
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requires two files: ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist,
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(they usually reside in star/tartest directory), and `tartest' program
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(also part of star distribution). The test must be run only with root
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privileges, so it is a good idea to test contents of
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ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running it.
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If `tartest' is not in your PATH, use TARTEST variable to specify its
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full file name. You may pass both STAR_TESTSCRIPTS and TARTEST
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variables as command line arguments to quicktest.sh, as shown in
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the example below:
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./quicktest.sh STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir TARTEST=/path/to/tartest
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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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