homerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Been fasing several times to situation when using Solaris bundled tar to
> untar archive that is done with gnu tar and archive has long paths or
> file/directory names.
> Then during untarring with Solaris bundlet tar i get error messages about too
> long paths/filenames/directorynames and untarring is not complete.
> at least this has been situation with S8,9,10
> Could this be fixed someday ?
This is caused by the fact that GNU tar is not creating POSIX compliant
archives.
If you are looking for a 'real' tar that is able to deal with the non-standard
GNU archives, I recommend star.
If you like to see this feature with /usr/bin/tar, I see the following option:
Star has already been aproved for integration into the Solaris base code, this
aprovement is more than a year old and only needs to be made reality.
While the star integration has ben discussed, there has also been a discussion
about the possibiltiy to let star later replace /usr/bin/tar. This may need
further discussion and star will in future be 100% compatible to Sun tar with
the exception of bugs (e.g. the broken internal ZFS ACL format that appeared
recently).
Jörg
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