[OE-core] [PATCH 5/7] selftest/package: Add test to ensure sparse files are preserved

[Richard Purdie]

Add a new element to the hardlink test to check we also preseve file
sparseness during the packing process. This should ensure we don't regress this
issue again.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 .../recipes-test/selftest-hardlink/selftest-hardlink.bb     | 1 +
 meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py                     | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-hardlink/selftest-hardlink.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-hardlink/selftest-hardlink.bb
index 8a0e6336aa8..ec330fa9fff 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-hardlink/selftest-hardlink.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-hardlink/selftest-hardlink.bb
@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ do_install () {
 	ln ${D}${bindir}/hello ${D}${bindir}/hello2
 	ln ${D}${bindir}/hello ${D}${bindir}/hello3
 	ln ${D}${bindir}/hello ${D}${bindir}/hello4
+	dd if=/dev/zero of=${D}${bindir}/sparsetest bs=1 count=0 seek=1M
 }
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
index f288fcafdb4..4ff9b08c96a 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/package.py
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ class VersionOrdering(OESelftestTestCase):
 
 class PackageTests(OESelftestTestCase):
     # Verify that a recipe which sets up hardlink files has those preserved into split packages
+    # Also test file sparseness is preserved
     def test_preserve_hardlinks(self):
         result = bitbake("selftest-hardlink -c package")
 
@@ -97,3 +98,8 @@ class PackageTests(OESelftestTestCase):
         # Recipe creates 4 hardlinked files, there is a copy in package/ and a copy in packages-split/
         # so expect 8 in total.
         self.assertEqual(os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink" + bindir + "/hello").st_nlink, 8)
+
+        # Test a sparse file remains sparse
+        sparsestat = os.stat(dest + "/selftest-hardlink" + bindir + "/sparsetest")
+        self.assertEqual(sparsestat.st_blocks, 0)
+        self.assertEqual(sparsestat.st_size, 1048576)
-- 
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