https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-filesrepo

Temporary repository to hold the testfiles necessary for rdiff-backup automated testing
https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-filesrepo

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Temporary repository to hold the testfiles necessary for rdiff-backup automated testing

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-filesrepo
• Owner: rdiff-backup
• Created: 2019-11-01T06:33:01.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-20T06:08:29.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-10-20T14:45:05.933Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: testfiles
• Language: Shell
• Size: 10.3 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.adoc

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= Testfiles for rdiff-backup automated testing

== Usage

The archive `rdiff-backup_testfiles.tar` needs to be extracted as root in the

same directory where the `rdiff-backup` git repository lies, so that the

tox-tests can be successful as per the variable `old_test_dir` in

`testing/commontest.py` pointing to `${PWD}_testfiles` (in Python terms).

The extraction as root (e.g. `sudo tar xvzf rdiff-backup_testfiles.tar.gz`) is

sadly necessary because else the device files won't be extracted as normal user.

You then possibly need to fix as root the access rights so that the user/group

you're using normally in your daily development life is set instead of the

default user and group 1000. For this you may use the script and call

`sudo ./rdiff-backup-filesrepo/rdiff-backup_testfiles.fix.sh`.

So in summary:

[source,console]

----

# you're in the cloned rdiff-backup Git repository

cd ..

git clone https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-filesrepo.git

sudo tar xvf ./rdiff-backup-filesrepo/rdiff-backup_testfiles.tar

sudo ./rdiff-backup-filesrepo/rdiff-backup_testfiles.fix.sh

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IMPORTANT: the script normally uses the variables `SUDO_UID` and `SUDO_GID`

handled by sudo to set the files' ownership to the current *normal* user.

If you want to assign the files to a different user/group, you may call

`sudo ./rdiff-backup-filesrepo/rdiff-backup_testfiles.fix.sh  `.

It should be the same non-root user/group as which you'll be calling `tox`.

== Notes

* the tar file is necessary and the files it contains can't be put directly

  in Git because of the special aspects like user rights, ACLs, devices...

* by not compressing the tar file, it looks more like a text file to Git

  and should allow it to better handle deltas between versions.

* we'll be working on making more of the testfiles be generated during the

  tests but (again) due to the special aspects required, it is not as easy as

  it could seem.

== rdiffweb-testcases.tar

This file has been copied from https://gitlab.com/ikus-soft/rdiffweb/-/tree/master/rdiffweb/tests