Justin Banks wrote: > James Carlson wrote >> Justin Banks wrote: >>> When untarring a tarball that was created with absolute paths, the tar >>> command should prepend a . to all pathnames unless specifically told not >>> to in order to keep the command from potentially clobbering all system >>> files. See >>> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=1223447 >>> which has been around since '05 >> Did you try "gtar" instead? > > It's not for me, it's for my end-user customers. I can ask/recommend > that they use GNU tar, but they may not have it installed and may not > want to (or be unable to for administrative reasons).
Ah, ok. Well, the pax "s" option can be used to modify paths on the fly, and is available on older Solaris releases. If your end-user customers are on OpenSolaris, this shouldn't be much of an issue because GNU tar is normally included there, but if they're not on OpenSolaris, then fixing the problem in OpenSolaris (by contributing a fix here) won't help because it won't cause a patch for those older Solaris releases to appear. So, if the issue is with something other than OpenSolaris, you probably should contact Sun's support group instead. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carls...@workingcode.com> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
