On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > casper....@sun.com wrote: > >> For some time I had "gtar" as my tar but it was broken too often (it >> doesn't properly unpack certain archives I encountered) > > A serious problem with GNU tar is that it is unreliable and in a signficant > number of cases is unable to read back it's own archives. >
I've 'heard' you say that on a number of occasions... I've been using gnu tar for about 15 years or so, on everything from FreeBSD to IBM AIX, and I've never had the problems you mention. >>> If so, then I think it would be best to find the top 5-10 most requested GNU >>> userland features (e.g. "tar z") and implement them in the Solaris userland >>> ASAP. This would give almost guaranteed 100% backwards compatibility with >>> previous Solaris versions and "good enough" compatibility with Linux. > > Roughly at the same time as GNU tar introduced -z, star introduced > auto-decompression. Why do you like to know about this detail if the tar > implementation could to this for you automagically based on the compression > header magic numbers? > This has always annoyed me too (need for -z or -j in gtar). But I guess the option(s) would still be needed in order to create a compressed tar file anyway. -- Happy cheese in fear | Jon Trulson against oppressor, rebel! | mailto:j...@radscan.com Brocolli, hostage. -Unknown | 4E2A 697F 66D6 7918 B684 | FEB6 4E98 16C1 25F8 A291 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
