Jake Hamby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another symlink that we might discuss changing is /usr/bin/tar to point to > /usr/sfw/bin/gtar instead of /usr/sbin/tar. The main feature of GNU tar not > present in Solaris tar is built-in support for .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 archives > using the -z and -j flags, but I believe Solaris tar also has difficulty > extracting archives with long pathnames created by GNU tar. Then again, with > practice it's not *too* difficult to get used to typing gtar all the time, > and I couldn't guarantee that changing /usr/bin/tar would be 100% safe from > the POV of standards compliance and passing testsuites, or if there are > customers whose scripts depend on the current behavior of /usr/bin/tar. The main features of GNU tar is compliance problems. I recommend to avoid GNU tar whereever possible. You cannot replace /usr/bin/tar with a program that does not implement the features os /usr/bin/tar without creating hard to track down problems. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org