Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM> wrote:
> > I thought that OpenSolaris is on the way of becoming really open. This
> > implies
> > that we need to replace CS parts and the only way I see to achieve this for
> > pax(1) (in a way that gives sufficient Solaris specific support) is to
> > replace
> > /usr/bin/pax by a hard link to /usr/bin/star (the latter being under CDDL).
>
> Then find and ARC sponsor and propose such a case. The previous case
> 2004/480 did not approve star as a replacement for tar but instead has
> approval to ship star in /usr/sfw.
It did not approve it but it suggests it.
At the time when this case was handled, there was no need to replace
/usr/bin/pax by opensource. This is diffrent now.
> > As this FastTrack case obviously introduces a lot of problems, we need to
> > derail it and to start a discussion for a better solution that does not
> > introduce incompatibilities.
>
> I'm not going to derail it because I don't see anything wrong with it.
> It provides good and needed incremental improvement, consistency with
> the recently approved cases for the other utilities and it doesn't stop
> a future integration of star (it does leave an issue on the table for
> such a future case on how to deal with the star specific -/ option but
> that is a topic for the future case should it ever happen).
Sorry, it tries to introduce unneeded inconsisty in the list of archivers.
J?rg
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