John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > There is no bashing, GNU tar is non-portable
>
> Pleeeze - GNU Tar is portable to everywhere that has GNU tar.
> For the purposes of this discussion, this includes ALL of the OS's
> we are talking about: Solaris, OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Distros,
> RHEL, Fedora and all the other Linux derivatives.
GNU tar creates non-portable archives by default. This should be well known....
> Leaving aside for the moment its bugs and the mental state of the
> users who have - for better or for worse - decided to use it, the
> fact remains that the transition between a Linux environment and
> a Solaris environment is more difficult than it needs to be.
You have two possibilities for dealing with the GNU tar problem.
1) Tell migrants from the Linux camp that tgheir archives cannot
be read on Solaris by calling "tar" because the archives from
GNU tar are nonstandard.
2) Follow the long term path from PSARC 2004/480 and replace
Sun'S current tar by a tar implementation that is able to
read the non-standard archives written by GNU tar.
> We need to address that disconnect.
>
> There seems to be two migration paths that are possible:
>
> Have developers migrate from Linux to Solaris, or
> Have developers migrate from Solaris to Linux.
> Which do you see happening - both short and long term?
This mainly depends on whether it is possible to refurbish the Solaris
CLI commands the right way.
What needs to be done is: Do not give up what's good on Solaris
but enhance the commands the right way. Solaris is more than a kernel
and it is wrong to ignore the userland.
Jörg
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