Re: [tarlz] testsuite failure on Alpine (edge)

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

hello J Dean,

Thank you very much for reporting this.

J Dean wrote:
> testing --create...touch: invalid date '2022-01-05T12:22:13'
> [...]
> could this be a busybox touch quirk? only by patching the --create --mtime test 
> section out does the build complete with all other tests passing.

This seems to be the case; the touch command you are using probably does not 
understand the 'T' separator in '2022-01-05T12:22:13' and requires a space 
instead.

You may try to work around this limitation of touch by changing line 749 of 
testsuite/check.sh to something like the following:

touch -d 2022-01-05T12:22:13 bar >/dev/null 2>&1 || touch -d '2022-01-05 
12:22:13' bar || framework_failure

> would like to package this for Alpine (lzip/lzlib/plzip are already in the 
> official repos). is there a workaround, perhaps an alternative test? or can the 
> test be patched out as above and the resultant binary be used in production, 
> despite the check failure?

If the workaround above does not work, you may remove the test and use the 
binary until I release a version that skips the test in this case. This is 
not a bug in tarlz, but a limitation of this particular touch.

Best regards,
Antonio.