Jake Hamby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another symlink that we might discuss changing is /usr/bin/tar to point to
> /usr/sfw/bin/gtar instead of /usr/sbin/tar. The main feature of GNU tar not
> present in Solaris tar is built-in support for .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 archives
> using the -z and -j flags, but I believe Solaris tar also has difficulty
> extracting archives with long pathnames created by GNU tar. Then again, with
> practice it's not *too* difficult to get used to typing gtar all the time,
> and I couldn't guarantee that changing /usr/bin/tar would be 100% safe from
> the POV of standards compliance and passing testsuites, or if there are
> customers whose scripts depend on the current behavior of /usr/bin/tar.
The main features of GNU tar is compliance problems.
I recommend to avoid GNU tar whereever possible.
You cannot replace /usr/bin/tar with a program that does not implement
the features os /usr/bin/tar without creating hard to track down problems.
Jörg
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