* LSB-FHS 2.3 Beta Release Available The Open Group is pleased to announce 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Copyright (c) 1998-2004 The Open Group Motif, OSF/1, X/Open, The "X Device" and UNIX are registered trademarks, and the IT Dialtone, The Open Group and the X Window System are trademarks of The Open Group. POSIX is a registered trademark of the IEEE. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. ----- Andrew Josey Director of Certification The Open Group