Move GNU tar to /usr/bin [PSARC/2007/628 FastTrack timeout 11/08/2007]

[Joerg Schilling]

John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:

> Shouldn't this page have A LINE ADDED to it that tells the user
> that there are multiple tars on the system and where to look for them?

At least after GNU tar is moved to /usr/bin/ it seems to be important that 
either a newer version is used _and_ the comnpilation is done in a way that
tells GNU tar to default to the POSIX.1-1988 tar archive format or that the man
mage gets a big warning that GNU tar by default creates non-standard archives
that cannot be read by vanilla tar programs.

A sidenote: Sun should help to tell the FSF that POSIX mentions man(1)
but not "info". Documentation in info style therefore is a second class citizen.
A program thatcomes with info but not with a man(1) compliant documentation 
must be called undocumented.

Jörg

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