[osol-discuss] Re: [gnu-sol-discuss] Incorporating open-source cmds/libs into OpenSolaris

[Alan DuBoff]

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I trimed down the to: and cc: list, which was large, and would like to pick 
one to keep this discussion on.
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On Thursday 01 December 2005 03:30 am, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> In former times, it was usual to (by intention) have a limited PATH
> for root in order to reduce provlems by miss-typed commands and similar.

Let's try to forget about the past, and let's try to look towards the future. 
We also had small volumes on many disks as well.

> If you add all binaries to a single directory, this will no longer work.

I don't think it's that bad yet. I think there's still a lot of life to the 
core system, for the forseeable future anyway. But what do I know?:-/

> As other tars just do not have enough features, I guess that you call
> "star" anyway. But for scripts it is of course needed to have a conforming
> "tar" in the PATH. Conforming means that the program called under the name
> "tar" must not cause unexpected problems. This includes creating archives
> that cannot be unpacked by a standard tar.....

You miss the point entirely. This is not about which tar has the best 
features. The tar that is in the core systems should be the tar that I use, 
which has all the latest features, plus supports any legacy support (for 
POSIX for instance), and in general "just works". It should have the features 
of star in it, as well as gtar, or Sun tar.

I want folks to work on the one common tar that works for everyone. It's 
located at /usr/bin/tar.

In the current state, I think you would agree we have too many efforts. 
OpenSolaris really needs to streamline these efforts together somehow, so 
that everyone can focus on the real problems rather than the same problems.

-- 

Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
Solaris x86 Engineering


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