John Plocher <john.plocher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Worse yet (this is no surprise to most, I'm sure, but pity our poor users...):
>
> On your new OpenSolaris system, create a tar archive of, say, your web
> document root that you want to move over to another system: cd
> /export/website; tar cf ~/mywebsite.tar .
Let me add a note that you may need to have long path names (> 255 chars)
in the directory structure in order to make sure there is a visible problem.
> scp it over to your other OpenSolaris system, you know, the one you
> really use, with ksh93 and a real guru's PATH that starts with
> /usr/bin :-) Try to extract your website: cd /export/mynewsite; tar
> xf ~/mywebsite.tar
>
> It probably won't work, because gnutar does not create tar archives
> that are compatible with OpenSolaris' tar.
It is not about compatibility with Solaris tar (as people may believe e.g.
from reading the mysql website) it is missing standard compliance of the
archives created by GNU tar.
> Repeat for the entire set of gratuitously different tools; the
> incompatibilities bite both ways, btw, so this isn't really an "I hate
> gnu binutils" rant :-)
If you like to be able to swap tools, you may do so witout bigger problems
only in case that both toolsets are suffuciently standard compliant.
J?rg
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