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   1 This directory contains scripts for testing GNU tar using
   2 star "test archives". The archives themselves can be obtained
   3 from http://download.berlios.de/pub/star/testscripts.
   4
   5 The tests are ignored unless environment variable STAR_TESTSCRIPTS
   6 is set and points to the directory where the test archives reside.
   7 Sample usage:
   8
   9         make STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir check
  10 or
  11         make TESTS_ENVIRONMENT='STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir' check
  12
  13 The file `quicktest.sh' is a separate test. It is never executed
  14 within `make check' command, you will need to run it manually.
  15 Please, carefully read section `quicktest.sh' below before running
  16 it.
  17
  18 Following is a short description of the tests:
  19
  20 * gtarfail.at and gtarfail2.at
  21
  22 These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively.
  23 These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted
  24 by previous versions of GNU tar.
  25
  26 * multi-fail.at
  27
  28 Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar.
  29 These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions
  30 of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option).
  31
  32 * ustar-big-2g.at
  33
  34 Requires ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with
  35 the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand.
  36
  37 * ustar-big-8g.at
  38
  39 Requires ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing
  40 files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990)
  41 format.
  42
  43 * pax-big-10g.at
  44
  45 Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves
  46 containing very large files (in this case -- 10 GB).
  47
  48 * quicktest.sh
  49
  50 This is a test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It
  51 requires two files: ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist,
  52 (they usually reside in star/tartest directory), and `tartest' program
  53 (also part of star distribution). The test must be run only with root
  54 privileges, so it is a good idea to test contents of
  55 ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running it.
  56
  57 If `tartest' is not in your PATH, use TARTEST variable to specify its
  58 full file name. You may pass both STAR_TESTSCRIPTS and TARTEST
  59 variables as command line arguments to quicktest.sh, as shown in
  60 the example below:
  61
  62   ./quicktest.sh STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir TARTEST=/path/to/tartest
  63
  64 \f
  65 Local variables:
  66 mode: outline
  67 paragraph-separate: "[  \f]*$"
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