From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:35:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Accept an optional list of allowed archive
X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=74d29bc5de297d8039f0a0ef646fbeb3e72bcbac;p=chaz%2Ftar

Accept an optional list of allowed archive
formats. Exit with the status 77 if the current archive
format does not match any of them.
---

diff --git a/tests/before b/tests/before
index 4347922..6ddf3cf 100755
--- a/tests/before
+++ b/tests/before
@@ -17,3 +17,20 @@ exec 1> stdout
 exec 2> stderr
 
 PATH=..:../../src:$PATH
+
+if test $# -ne 0; then
+    case $TAR_OPTIONS in
+        --format=*)   FMTOPT=$TAR_OPTIONS;;
+        *)            FMTOPT=`tar --show-defaults`;;
+    esac
+
+    FORMAT=
+    for option
+    do
+        case $FMTOPT in
+            --format=$option*) FORMAT=$option
+	                       break;;
+        esac
+    done
+    test -z "$FORMAT" && exit 77
+fi