[lsb-discuss] LSB-FHS 2.3 Beta Release Available

Andrew Josey ajosey at rdg.opengroup.org
Tue Feb 17 06:22:16 PST 2004


* LSB-FHS 2.3 Beta Release Available

The Open Group is pleased to announced the beta release of
the LSB-FHS test suite for the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Version 2.3,
used to test the filesystem hierarchy aspects of the Linux Standard Base.

This is now available at http://www.opengroup.org/testing/lsb-fhs/

This release aligns with the FHS version 2.3 specification. There are
a number of 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.

The test suite only takes 20 minutes or less to configure install and
run. Please send any feedback to ajosey:opengroup-dot-org.


The release notes follow below.

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                                 The Open Group
                             LSB-FHS Release 2.3beta
                                 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 2.3beta  is a full 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.

This release is targeted for testing the LSB 2.x specification release
series and is not for use with LSB 1.3 or earlier.

1.1  Changes since the last release 

The following changes have been made since the last
release: 


	Full alignment with FHS2.3.

	Bug fix changes have been made.

	There are numerous changes associated with this release, please 
	read the test assertions document , which has been fully revised
	and the assertions renumbered for the FHS2.3 specification. 

	Many of the type C Assertions now report UNSUPPORTED when an
	FHS option is not supported.  In a small number of cases tests
	may return a FIP (Further information provided code), meaning
	that they should be manually  resolved.

	The number of test cases for /dev is reduced to three
	existence tests for /dev/tty, /dev/zero and /dev/null.

	A small number of new tests have been added for new sections
	in FHS 2.3:
		/media, /srv, /lib64 and /lib32 (where applicable)

2. Release Contents

The release consists of the following files.

README.LSB-FHS2.3	A Readme file
lsb-fhs-relnote.txt	These release notes
lts_lsb-fhs2.3beta.tgz  The source code to the suite in gzip'd tar format

3. Obtaining TET and VSXgen

LSB-FHS runs under TET3 and VSXgen (the generic test framework built
upon The Open Group's Test Environment Toolkit) . A suitable version of 
the merged TET3/VSXgen release can be obtained from the same
location as this release note.

TET3 must be configured  to build  as  the Lite version .  Do not use
the Distributed version. If you use the provided "install.sh" installation
wrapper this will be configured automatically.  For more information on TET,
and TETware Professional , see http://tetworks.opengroup.org .

4. Support

Support related questions and problem reports should be directed to by
email to  lsb-test:linuxbase-dot-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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Andrew Josey 
Director of Certification                   
The Open Group




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