On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 7:17 PM Marcel Hofstetter <hofstet...@jomasoft.ch> wrote: > Is there a way to configure which tar to use? > > gnu tar would be available. > > -bash-5.1$ ls -l /usr/gnu/bin/tar > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 1226248 Jul 1 2022 /usr/gnu/bin/tar
Cool. I guess you could fix the test either by setting TAR=/usr/gnu/bin/tar or PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH. If we want to understand *why* it doesn't work, someone would need to dig into that. It's possible that PostgreSQL is using some GNU extension (if so, apparently the BSDs' tar is OK with it too, and I guess AIX's and HP-UX's was too in the recent times before we dropped those OSes). I vaguely recall (maybe 20 years ago, time flies) that Solaris tar wasn't able to extract some tarballs but I can't remember why... I'm also happy to leave it at "Sun's tar doesn't work for us, we don't know why" if you are.