On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
Peter Jeremy wrote:
Why is Gnu tar needed? I realise that the Solaris tar is broken
but I've seen no problems with bsdtar? Maybe the tar test needs
to be a functionality test, rather than a version test.
I'm not so convinced the Sun tar is broken.
I have been bitten badly by Sun's tar silently truncating filenames
that are longer than 100 characters on extraction... Of course it's
standard conforming unlike gnu's tar, but as a user it certainly feels
like a defect. (I had to resort to converting all my .tar.gz into .zip
files to be able to unpack things...) So maybe the right answer is
that gnu's tar is broken in a good way :)
- Robert
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