On 6/26/08, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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... ;-/
The switch should be -U says http://www.blastwave.org/man/star_1.html -U Restore files unconditionally. By default, an older file from the archive will not replace a corresponding newer file on disk. ick Dennis _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
