From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 18:57:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03FB316A4CE for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:57:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kientzle.com (h-66-166-149-50.snvacaid.covad.net [66.166.149.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF61643D1F for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (p54.kientzle.com [66.166.149.54]) by kientzle.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i4I1vu90036601 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <40A96DA2.4080306@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:57:54 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031006 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Wanted: Example tar files X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 01:57:58 -0000 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 . 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