Re: tar: minor POSIX incompliance
The choice of utility used by the test suite is user defined and set in
the TESTROOT/BIN/*.sh scripts. You may choose pax.
Install scripts into TESTROOT/BIN..? [y]
The test suites require the generation of certain files.
This can be done using either cpio and tar together or pax.
pax is the most POSIX compliant program but may not be installed
by default on your system. If you do not use pax you can expect
to see more test failures.
Use pax..? [y]
regards
Andrew
On Mar 25, 3:53pm in "Re: tar: minor POSIX", Paul Eggert wrote:
> However, this change is irrelevant to the question of whether GNU tar
> conforms to POSIX, as POSIX does not specify the behavior of the "tar"
> command. It is incorrect for a test suite to check for POSIX
> conformance by running the "tar" command. A POSIX test suite should
> invoke the "pax" command instead.
>
> Also, I should mention that GNU tar does not generate POSIX-format
> ustar archives, nor does it claim to. Volunteers to fix this
> deficiency would be welcome, but that's a different topic. It is a
> quality-of-implementation issue, and is not strictly a
> POSIX-conformance issue.
>
>
> > the LSB people may decide to waive the test, not requiring it for a
> > distribution to claim LSB compliance. On the other hand, they may not; see
> > http://lists.debian.org/lsb-test/2001/lsb-test-200105/msg00003.html
>
> I'll CC: this message to lsb-test so that they know of the bug in the
> test suite that is being used here.
>
>
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