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[Dennis Clarke]

On 6/26/08, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> "Dennis Clarke" <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > 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 am not sure where the problems are but star -U still noes not include the
>  permission to remove old files.
>
>  If you like to use star to _install_ software over an existing installation,
>  you may like to call "scpio -u" instead or use star with the right options to
>  permit file removal.
>
>  Calling scpio is similar to call: star -x -U -install -force-remove -remove-recursive
>
>  See man page for mire information.

  You are using the correct word despite the spelling.  Yes, your man
page is a "mire" and in there I get stuck.

>  The reason why you did missunderstand things may be that Sun tar
> and Sun cpio implement a lot of undocumented behavior that is not
> in the standard and thus  unknown to most users.

Where is this standard that you refer to?  At the OpenGroup ?

Dennis