Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:57:54 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Wanted: Example tar files Message-ID: <40A96DA2.4080306@freebsd.org>
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In order to test bsdtar's automatic format detection and
support for variant tar formats, I'm looking for sample
archives generated by a variety of tar programs.
In particular, I'm looking for tar archives generated by:
* Very old versions of tar (pre-1980 is especially
interesting)
* Various vendor implementations (AIX, HP-UX,
Solaris, etc.)
* Other programs that create tar archives?
I've tested pretty thoroughly against the current
versions of GNU tar, star, and Solaris 8 tar, so I
don't need examples generated by those.
An ideal test archive would not be too big (< 16k) and
have as many as possible of the following:
* regular file
* directory
* hardlink
* symlink
* fifo, socket, device node, etc.
* regular file with very long pathname (>256 characters)
* symlink to a file with a very long pathname
* file with 8-bit character in the filename
* file with 8-bit character in the user or group name
* file with ACL, file flags, or other extended permissions
Of course, if the system or tar program doesn't support
some of these, don't bother. Be sure to extract it
to a clean directory to make sure it really does contain
what you think it does and send me the results of "ls -lR"
so I can check that bsdtar does the right thing. And, of
course, let me know what program/version/system generated it.
If you have a sample for me that's UNDER TWENTY KILOBYTES,
just gzip it and email it to me at <kientzle@freebsd.org>.
If you have something larger, please contact me first to
make suitable arrangements to transfer it.
Bonus points, of course, if you've tried to extract
it with bsdtar and it failed. ;-)
Thanks for your help,
Tim Kientzle
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