This directory contains scripts for testing GNU tar using
star "test archives". The archives themselves can be obtained
-from http://download.berlios.de/pub/star/testscripts.
+from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/testscripts.
-The tests are ignored unless environment variable STAR_TESTSCRIPTS
-is set and points to the directory where the test archives reside.
-Sample usage:
+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
+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
+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
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).
+of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option).
* ustar-big-2g.at
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/tartest directory), and `tartest' program
+(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 test contents of
+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
+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: