From:	 Andrew Josey <ajosey@rdg.opengroup.org>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: LSB-FHS2.2beta test suite available
Date:	 Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:14:09 +0100

Dear LWN,
I thought this announcement might be of interest.
best regards
Andrew
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LSB-FHS2.2beta release now available

The beta release of the LSB-FHS test suite for FHS2.2, for the filesystem
hierarchy aspects of the Linux Standard Base is now available from
ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/. (the sourceforge server is giving us
problems)

The key files to download are:

     ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/beta/README.LSB-FHS2.2beta
     ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/install.sh
     ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/tet_vsxgen_1.0.tgz
     ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/beta/lts_lsb-fhs2.2beta.tgz

We are keen to receive as much feedback as possible on this release and plan to
make an update at the end of the month. The test suite only
takes 20 minutes or less to configure install and run. Please send any feedback
to lsb-test@linuxbase.org.

This release aligns with the FHS version 2.2 specification. There are seven new
tests added over previous releases. See the revised test
specification included in the MAN directory for further information on the
detailed changes with this release.

No claims of compliance should be made at this stage, this is still beta
software, subject to change.

The release notes follow below.
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                                 The Open Group
                             LSB-FHS Release 2.2beta
                                 Release Notes


This document provides Release notes for the Verification suite for the
Filesystem Hierarchy aspects of the Linux Standard Base.

1. Release Overview

LSB-FHS 2.2beta  is a beta release of this test suite.
LSB-FHS is built using the VSXgen (the generic VSX test framework), and
contains tests for the Filesystem Hierarchy aspects of the Linux
Standard Base.


This test suite has not yet been adopted by the Linux Standard Base team
and no claims should be made of LSB conformance to this version of the
test suite.  The test assertions being tested are in the file
MAN/LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0.

1.1  Changes since the last release

The following changes have been made since the last
release:

        Alignment with FHS2.2.

2. Release Contents

The release consists of the following files.

README.LSB-FHS2.2       A Readme file
lsb-fhs-relnote.txt     These release notes
lts_lsb-fhs2.2beta.tgz  The source code to the suite in gzip'd tar format

3. Obtaining TET and VSXgen

LSB-FHS runs under TET3. A suitable version of TET3 (the unsupported release of
TETware) can be obtained at:

        ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/tet_vsxgen_1.0.tgz

TET3 must be configured  to build  as  the Lite version .  Do not use
the Distributed version.  For more information on TET , see
http://tetworks.opengroup.org .

4. Support

Support related questions and problem reports should be directed to by
email to ajosey(at)rdg.opengroup.org.

5. Size

The size of LSB-FHS when the  suite is built is approximately 10MB.  The
size of the compressed distribution is roughly 1 MB. When running the
complete test suite, journal files will be produced that are typically
less than 1MB in length, so its recommended that at least 20MB of disk
space be allowed for a test campaign.

6. Time

The test suite takes approximately 30 minutes to run depending on the
speed of the platform under test

Prepared by The Open Group

See the Licence file included in the distribution for licensing
information.

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