Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:43:53 +0100
> >From: Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
> >
> >Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The project team has made minor updates to the proposal to address
> >> concerns raised by Darren, Garrett, and internal project team members.
> >> (GNU rmt will move from /usr/sfw/libexec/grmt to /usr/lib/grmt instead
> >> of /usr/libexec/rmt, man page links will be placed in
> >
> >As I mentioned already, grmt is not needed as the rmt program from star
> >is replacing /etc/rmt ans this rmt implementation is a true superset of the
> >functionality of all known rmt implementation.
>
> And, has already been pointed out, star has been in the process of
> replacing stuff for well over three years. When you integrate star
> into a Solaris gate, then we can consider dropping support for grmt;
> until then, your proposed replacement for /etc/rmt is not an actual
> replacement for grmt.
Is there a chance that you come to reality?
The case PSARC/2004/480 has not been made for fun but because there is a _need_
to integrate star into Solaris.
The people who are currently working on the GNU tar could e.g. do the more
important tasks first and make PSARC/2004/480 reality.
J?rg
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