[Toybox] [PATCH] test.tar: fix tar tests on Android.

enh enh at google.com
Tue Jul 9 16:20:19 PDT 2019


actually spent the day trying to work out what's wrong with dd
instead. i've got the point now where (with the patch from earlier
today plus the patch from 2019-02 that i just resent) i finally have
dd producing an identical input file, which seems like a good place to
context switch until tomorrow...

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:22 PM enh <enh at google.com> wrote:
>
> do you want me to send another patch that only contains the fixes and
> doesn't include the workaround for the dd issue?
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 12:51 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/1/19 4:26 PM, enh via Toybox wrote:
> > > There's no /etc/group on Android.
> > >
> > > Loop devices are in different places, but that test doesn't seem to
> > > offer anything beyond the block/char special device tests later, so
> > > remove that rather than fix it.
> > >
> > > Fix the block/char special tests (the expectations were missing, but
> > > they're never normally run on the host because the mknod fails).
> > >
> > > Likewise add the missing expectation to the "ownership" test, which
> > > isn't normally run on the host because the chown fails.
> > >
> > > Add a skipnot to the "sparse without overflow" test because the dd line
> > > doesn't work with toybox dd.
> >
> > I wrote "I need to fix that" and then left the window open, and haven't
> > continued through the patch list so as not to lose my place, and now it's the
> > following day...
> >
> > Rob



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