Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 6/25/08, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  The ksh93 update tarballs announced below seem to work for Indiana
> >  installations (not the LiveCD itself since the media is read-only), too.
> >  Have fun... :-)
> 
> OKay .. some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed in the morning.
> 
> This *should* extract that file and overwrite anything involved neatly :
> 
> -bash-3.2# cd /
> -bash-3.2# sync;sync
> -bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/star -x -v -U -bz
> file=/root/ksh93_integration_20080624_snapshot_i386.tar.bz2
> x etc/ksh.kshrc 2934 bytes, 6 tape blocks
> x etc/magic 19592 bytes, 39 tape blocks
> .
> .
> .
> 
> I have no idea how I managed to bork this up but my session is dead as
> a doornail and the extraction of that tarball blew up because star
> claims that there was something ... not quite kosher :
> 
> x usr/lib/amd64/libast.so symbolic link to libast.so.1
> /opt/csw/bin/star: File 'usr/lib/amd64/libast.so' not removed.
> /opt/csw/bin/star: File exists. Cannot create symbolic link
> 'usr/lib/amd64/libast.so' to 'libast.so.1'.
> 
> full details at :
> 
> http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/ksh93/ksh93_extract_bork_bork_bork.txt
> 
> am I dead in the water for any user that was using ksh93 ?

I only tested this with /usr/bin/tar which works on my VMware Solaris
11/B84 and Indiana installations... maybe you need an extra switch for
"star" to get this working... ;-/

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Bye,
Roland

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