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* [LHF] making t5000 "tar xf" tests more lenient
@ 2012-12-24 20:49 Junio C Hamano
  2013-01-05 18:34 ` René Scharfe
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2012-12-24 20:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

I've been running testsuite on a few platforms that are unfamiliar
to me, and was bitten by BSD implementation of tar that do not grok
the extended pax headers.  I've already fixed one in t9502 [*1*]
where we produce a tarball with "git archive" and then try to
validate it with the platform implementation of "tar" so that the
test won't barf when it sees the extended pax header.

t5000 is littered with similar tests that break unnecessarily with
BSD implementations.  I think what it wants to test are:

 - "archive" produces tarball, and "tar" can extract from it.  If
   your "tar" does not understand pax header, you may get it as an
   extra file that shouldn't be there, but that should not cause the
   test to fail---in real life, people without a pax-aware "tar"
   will just ignore and remove the header and can go on.

 - "get-tar-commmit-id" can inspect a tarball produced by "archive"
   to recover the object name of the commit even on a platform
   without a pax-aware "tar".

Perhaps t5000 can be restructured like so:

 - create a tarball with the commit-id and test with
   "get-tar-commit-id" to validate it; also create a tarball out of
   a tree to make sure it does not have commit-id and check with
   "get-tar-commit-id".  Do this on any and all platform, even on
   the ones without a pax-aware "tar".

 - check platform implementation of "tar" early to see if extracting
   a simple output from "git archive" results in an extra pax header
   file.  If so, remember this fact and produce any and all tarballs
   used in the remainder of the test by forcing ^{tree}.

so that people on platforms without pax-aware "tar" do not have to
install GNU tar only to pass this test.

It would be a good exercise during the holiday week for somebody on
BSD (it seems NetBSD is more troublesome than OpenBSD) to come up
with a patch to help users on these platforms.

Thanks.


[Footnote]

*1* http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211803

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2012-12-24 20:49 [LHF] making t5000 "tar xf" tests more lenient Junio C Hamano
2013-01-05 18:34 ` René Scharfe
2013-01-05 19:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-05 20:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-05 22:50     ` René Scharfe
2013-01-05 22:49 ` [PATCH] archive-tar: split long paths more carefully René Scharfe
2013-01-05 23:31   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-06  6:54   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-06 15:20 ` [PATCH] archive-zip: write uncompressed size into header even with streaming René Scharfe
2013-01-06 17:45 ` [PATCH 0/4] ZIP test fixes René Scharfe
2013-01-06 17:47   ` [PATCH 1/4] t0024, t5000: clear variable UNZIP, use GIT_UNZIP instead René Scharfe
2013-01-07  5:16     ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-07 16:25       ` René Scharfe
2013-01-06 17:49   ` [PATCH 2/4] t0024, t5000: use test_lazy_prereq for UNZIP René Scharfe
2013-01-06 18:06     ` Matt Kraai
2013-01-06 21:59       ` René Scharfe
2013-01-07  8:45     ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-07 16:28       ` René Scharfe
2013-01-06 17:51   ` [PATCH 3/4] t5000, t5002: move ZIP tests into their own script René Scharfe
2013-01-06 17:59   ` [PATCH 4/4] t5002: check if unzip supports symlinks René Scharfe
2013-01-07  8:52     ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-07 16:50       ` René Scharfe
2013-01-10  7:36         ` Jonathan Nieder

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