[indiana-discuss] ksh93 update 1 binaries for Indiana... / [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93-integration 2008-06-24 updatebinaries available for download (for Solaris Nevada >= B84+Indiana) ...]

[Dennis Clarke]

On 6/26/08, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>  > On 6/25/08, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
>
> > >  The ksh93 update tarballs announced below seem to work for Indiana
>  > >  installations (not the LiveCD itself since the media is read-only), too.
>  > >  Have fun... :-)
>  >
>  > OKay .. some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed in the morning.
>  >
>  > This *should* extract that file and overwrite anything involved neatly :
>  >
>  > -bash-3.2# cd /
>  > -bash-3.2# sync;sync
>  > -bash-3.2# /opt/csw/bin/star -x -v -U -bz
>  > file=/root/ksh93_integration_20080624_snapshot_i386.tar.bz2
>  > x etc/ksh.kshrc 2934 bytes, 6 tape blocks
>  > x etc/magic 19592 bytes, 39 tape blocks
>  > .
>  > .
>  > .
>  >
>  > I have no idea how I managed to bork this up but my session is dead as
>  > a doornail and the extraction of that tarball blew up because star
>  > claims that there was something ... not quite kosher :
>  >
>  > x usr/lib/amd64/libast.so symbolic link to libast.so.1
>  > /opt/csw/bin/star: File 'usr/lib/amd64/libast.so' not removed.
>  > /opt/csw/bin/star: File exists. Cannot create symbolic link
>  > 'usr/lib/amd64/libast.so' to 'libast.so.1'.
>  >
>  > full details at :
>  >
>  > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/ksh93/ksh93_extract_bork_bork_bork.txt
>  >
>  > am I dead in the water for any user that was using ksh93 ?
>
>
> I only tested this with /usr/bin/tar which works on my VMware Solaris
>  11/B84 and Indiana installations... maybe you need an extra switch for
>  "star" to get this working... ;-/

The switch should be -U says http://www.blastwave.org/man/star_1.html

-U   Restore files unconditionally.  By  default,  an  older
          file  from the archive will not replace a corresponding
          newer file on disk.

  ick

Dennis