[PATCH] test: verify test database v1 checksum in more portable way

[Tomi Ollila]

On Mon, Mar 13 2017, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:

> Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:
>
>> Replaced use of sha256 (gnu coreutils binary) with more portable
>> openssl sha256 execution.
>> ---
>>
>> Works on Linux and also on my FreeBSD KVM environment.
>
> There's a tradeoff here. In a minimal GNU/Linux environment coreutils is
> there but not openssl. So I don't mind the substitution (for the test

Köh... That did not come into my mind, but perhaps that is the fun of it.

I'd rather let this test fail on non-coreutils system (for the time being)
than introduce more dependencies ;) -- have to think whether proposing
alternative solution...

And had to test that one:

  localhost$ sudo docker run --rm -it debian:8.7 /bin/bash 
  root at 1c96aac39246:/# openssl
  bash: openssl: command not found
  root at 1c96aac39246:/# sha1sum < /dev/null
  da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709  -
  root at 1c96aac39246:/# exit
  exit
  localhost$

Marking this particular patch obsolete.

Tomi


> suite), but I think you need to add a
> "test_require_external prereq openssl" or equivalent to T530-upgrade.sh
>
> This will also require adding openssl as a debian build dependency; I
> can also live with that, although it might inconvenience some people
> building the debian-snapshot target.
>
> There's something aesthetically displeasing about hardcoding the
> checksum into the test script but I think I'm just grumbling at this
> point.

I personally disagree (in specific cases like this), but would not have
done that if there were simpler solution using the file...