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0000278

[star] packaging

minor

always

2004-03-05 13:06

2009-04-05 13:24

Reporter

oscar

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public

Assigned To

joerg

Priority

normal

Resolution

open

Status

closed

Summary

0000278: /opt/csw/bin/tar syntax incompatible with /usr/bin/tar

Description

/opt/csw/bin/tar is a symlink to /opt/csw/bin/star

If user\'s path has /opt/csw/bin before /usr/bin,
commands/scripts that use the syntax \"tar -[xct]...\"
break with \"Bad Option\" error message.

Sun\'s tar and gnu tar have always allow the dash \'-\'
in the tar command, even if the standard syntax is
without the dash as described in the man pages
(\"tar tf filename\" instead of \"tar -tf filename\")

Additional Information

Suggested to remove the tar -> star symlink for
compatibility.

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(0000342) joerg (manager) 2004-03-08 06:38	General rule from the POSIX standard: never rely on a command line syntax that works by accident and not because it has been documented. The reason why star behaves this way is to prevent people from \"converting\" valuable files into tar archives by accident. Star behaves this way since 1985. Either don\'t concat the \'f\' option with the onther options or symlink /opt/csw/bin/tar to /opt/csw/bin/suntar. The suntar command has been designed to be as close to Sun\'s tar as possible. The same is true for the gnutar command from the star package.

(0003950) james (reporter) 2006-09-22 11:28	star no longer linked to tar, please close issue.

(0005892) joerg (manager) 2009-04-05 13:24	fixed long ago

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