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

[Don Cragun]

>Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:43:53 +0100
>From: Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
>
>Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> The project team has made minor updates to the proposal to address
>> concerns raised by Darren, Garrett, and internal project team members.
>> (GNU rmt will move from /usr/sfw/libexec/grmt to /usr/lib/grmt instead
>> of /usr/libexec/rmt, man page links will be placed in
>
>As I mentioned already, grmt is not needed as the rmt program from star
>is replacing /etc/rmt ans this rmt implementation is a true superset of the
>functionality of all known rmt implementation.

And, has already been pointed out, star has been in the process of
replacing stuff for well over three years.  When you integrate star
into a Solaris gate, then we can consider dropping support for grmt;
until then, your proposed replacement for /etc/rmt is not an actual
replacement for grmt.

 - Don

>
>Jörg