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

[Joerg Schilling]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:

>
> >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.
>
>
> It's the default user environment in the Indiana release.
>
> (which means it cannot unpack certain Sun created tar archives)

Could you please elaborate?

I did not yet have the time to test the preview but if the default user setup
creates a non-UNIX environment, this would be a really bad idea.

Regarding tar compatibility... Did you understand why I am talking about 
tarcompatibility often? Unfortunately, Sun tar definitely creates similar 
problems as GNU tar. Sun tar may create archives with vendor uniqie extensions
that make it hard to unpack with other standard tar archivers.

It would be great if Sun is finally ready for a useful discussion on tar and if
people understand that all tar reated PSARC cases from the last 2 years did harm
the tar compatibility of Solaris.

Jörg

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