# Process this file with autom4te to create testsuite. -*- Autotest -*- # # Test suite for GNU tar. # Copyright 2011-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is part of GNU tar. # GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # Description: Check the functionality of the --keep-old-files option. # It should report an error and cause tar to exit with status 2. # # There was a regression in versions 1.23 to 1.26 inclusive, where # this option silently skipped such files. # Reported by: Doug McLaren , # Gary Partis , # Jim Meyering # # References: <20111117045433.GA8245@algol.frenzied.us>, # <4F3D824717847C4487F77228F83329A3514CBB@server.Partis.local>, # <87wrar6zzz.fsf@rho.meyering.net> AT_SETUP([keep-old-files]) AT_KEYWORDS([extract extrac18 old-files keep-old-files]) AT_TAR_CHECK([ mkdir dir cd dir echo 'Old file a' > a echo 'Old file b' > b tar cf ../archive . rm b echo 'File a' > a tar -x -k -f ../archive echo status=$? cat a ], [0], [status=2 File a ], [tar: ./a: Cannot open: File exists tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors ]) AT_CLEANUP