[tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for Solaris10 x86

[Michael E. Thomadakis]

Hi Arthur, 

I ended up using a GNU version of tar and the installation proceeded 
"without a hitch" (with something like env $PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" 
./install-tl ...). 

I've been using TL2008 and so far everything looks good....

Thanks for the reply,

Michael

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

| Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:28:05 +0200
| From: Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org>
| Reply-To: tex-live at tug.org
| To: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
| Cc: miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu, tex-live at tug.org
| Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for
|      Solaris10 x86
| 
| >     tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or directory
| > 
| > This message tells me that although we attempted to make all our tar
| > invocations work with vendor tars, apparently we failed on your
| > i386-solaris system.
| 
|   If I'm not mistaken, /dev/rmt is the device name for the tape drives
| on Solaris, and the default input / output location for Solaris tar
| (Tape ARchive).  Maybe there is some switch to work around that, and we
| don't need to expect "tar" to behave like GNU tar.
| 
|   On the other hand, Solaris comes with quite a lot of GNU software
| nowadays (/usr/sfw contains free programs compiled by SunFreeWare); it's
| probably safe to assume that if there is a "gtar" in the PATH, it's GNU
| tar, and to use that one instead of "tar".
| 
| 	Arthur
| 

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