This directory contains scripts for testing GNU tar using star "test archives". The archives themselves may be obtained from http://download.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: make STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir check The following is a short description of the tests: * gtarfail.sh and gtarfile2.tar 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.sh 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.sh 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.sh 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.sh Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves containing very large files (in this case -- 1 GB). * qucktest.sh A test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It requires the files ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist. Apart from them, the `tartest' program from 'star' package is needed. The test may be run only with root privileges, so it is a good idea to test the contents of ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running it. Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: