[tex-live] Bug report - tl-install fails on Solaris due to tar assumptions
Vladimir Volovich
vvv at vsu.ru
Tue Jun 30 03:22:12 CEST 2009
"NP" == Norbert Preining writes:
NP> Bummer, is POSIX so dump? And there are still tars in the wild that
NP> *actually* do not support that.
man tar shows:
-H, --format FORMAT
create archive of the given formatFORMAT is one of the following:
--format=gnu
GNU tar 1.13.x format
--format=oldgnu
GNU format as per tar <= 1.12
--format=pax
POSIX 1003.1-2001 (pax) format
--format=posix
same as pax
--format=ustar
POSIX 1003.1-1988 (ustar) format
--format=v7
old V7 tar format
so there's a chance that it is possible to create POSIX-compatible tar
files using GNU tar.
Best,
v.
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