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:

# 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

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 <uid> <gid>. 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

rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-filesrepo

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