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author | Lorry Tar Creator <lorry-tar-importer@lorry> | 2016-05-16 09:22:21 +0000 |
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committer | Lorry Tar Creator <lorry-tar-importer@lorry> | 2016-05-16 09:22:21 +0000 |
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diff --git a/tests/star/README b/tests/star/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57a6609 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/star/README @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +This directory contains scripts for testing GNU tar using +star "test archives". The archives themselves can be obtained +from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/testscripts. + +These tests are disabled by default. There are two ways to run +them. The simplest is by 'make check-full' command. It requires wget +and GNU md5sum to be installed. If you don't have these utilities, +download the test archives manually and set the environment variable +STAR_TESTSCRIPTS to point to the directory where they reside, for +example: + + make STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir check +or + make TESTS_ENVIRONMENT='STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir' check + +The file 'quicktest.sh' is a separate test. It is never executed +within 'make check' command, you will need to run it manually. +Please, carefully read section 'quicktest.sh' below before running +it. + +Following is a short description of the tests: + +* gtarfail.at and gtarfail2.at + +These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively. +These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted +by previous versions of GNU tar. + +* multi-fail.at + +Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar. +These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions +of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option). + +* ustar-big-2g.at + +Requires ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with +the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand. + +* ustar-big-8g.at + +Requires ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing +files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990) +format. + +* pax-big-10g.at + +Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves +containing very large files (in this case -- 10 GB). + +* quicktest.sh + +This is a test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It +requires two files: ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist, +(they usually reside in star/testscripts directory), and 'tartest' program +(also part of star distribution). The test must be run only with root +privileges, so it is a good idea to verify the contents of +ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running it. + +If 'tartest' is not in your PATH, use TARTEST variable to specify its +full file name. You may pass both STAR_TESTSCRIPTS and TARTEST +variables as command line arguments to quicktest.sh, as shown in +the example below: + + ./quicktest.sh STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir TARTEST=/path/to/tartest + + +* Copying + +Copyright 2004, 2006-2008, 2010, 2012-2014, 2016 Free Software +Foundation, Inc. + +This file is part of GNU tar. + +GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. + +GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +Local variables: +mode: outline +paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" +end: |