X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=tests%2Fstar%2FREADME;h=552ddd6e93b0e4de62af63ed024f1b5b0108ed3d;hb=664ec232d43d5f88cd28e7b5f67f0ed78731553b;hp=c72b86a442bc5299b35725956eeadb06197e2841;hpb=f730b4731421f8cc718e42ff776a1fee7c0c02b9;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/tests/star/README b/tests/star/README index c72b86a..552ddd6 100644 --- a/tests/star/README +++ b/tests/star/README @@ -6,47 +6,40 @@ 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 +or make TESTS_ENVIRONMENT='STAR_TESTSCRIPTS=testdir' check -The following is a short description of the tests: +Following is a short description of the tests: -* gtarfail.sh and gtarfile2.tar +* 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.sh +* 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.sh +* 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.sh +* 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.sh +* 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). -* 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