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

[David.Comay at Sun.COM]

Joerg,

> 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.

I could understand placing such a warning if GNU tar was replacing the
existing implementation under /usr/bin but this case doesn't propose
such a thing.

dsc