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, 2012-2013 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 . Local variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" end: