# Process this file with autom4te to create testsuite. -*- Autotest -*- # Test suite for GNU tar. # Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program 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 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # This program 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, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301, USA. # Using tar 1.15.x the following equivalent command sets: # # 1. tar cf archive file1 file2 # and # 2. tar cfT archive /dev/null # tar rf archive file1 # tar rt archive file2 # # produced different archives (GNU format is assumed). Namely, in the # second case the mode field of all members, except the first, was truncated # to lower 3 octets (& 0777). # # References: # <200607210526.AA03440@tamuki.linet.gr.jp> # http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-07/msg00029.html # The test case below verifies that the equivalent create and append commands # produce binary equivalent archives for all formats. AT_SETUP([append vs. create]) AT_KEYWORDS([append append02 append-gnu]) AT_TAR_CHECK([ genfile --file file1 genfile --file file2 # Make sure file timestamps in the archive will not differ MTIME="--mtime=@0" # For PAX archives, we need to make sure extended header names are # reproducible and that their contents won't change with time if test $[]TEST_TAR_FORMAT = posix; then TAR_OPTIONS="$TAR_OPTIONS --pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f,delete=mtime,delete=atime,delete=ctime" fi echo Creating archive.1 tar $MTIME -cf archive.1 file1 file2 echo Creating archive.2 tar $MTIME -cf archive.2 -T /dev/null tar $MTIME -rf archive.2 file1 tar $MTIME -rf archive.2 file2 echo Comparing archives cmp archive.1 archive.2 ], [0], [Creating archive.1 Creating archive.2 Comparing archives ]) AT_CLEANUP # End of append02.at