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

[Joerg Schilling]

David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:

> 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.

Looks like you missunderstood the current plans:

They allow people to set up an environment that looks as if GNU tar replaced
the standard tar. If someone set's up such an environment, he could claim that
an archive that has been created with "tar" on Solaris cannot be read back on 
Solaris by other people.

Jörg

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