James Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Star implements a GNU tar CLI compatibility mode. Did you ever test this? > > And star reads back _more_ archives written by GNU tar that the original > > GNU tar does. > > As a user, I'd really rather have real GNU tar than something written > for "compatibility mode." I'm sure you did your level best to make it > work as well as GNU tar, but what's the benefit to me -- a user -- in > having something else?
The benefit is that star is able to extract more archives written by GNU tar than the original GNU tar will do. This is because there are still strange bugs in GNU tar. Star in addition allows you to use the additional features (like e.g. the built in find(1)) to manipulate archives. > > So please explaint me for what purpose you need an original GNU tar binary. > > Because it's the same across all of the machines I need to use. "star" > isn't installed by default on anything I use day-to-day, but GNU tar > most often is. Star is installed on many machines, it yould be installed on all Solaris machines if the effort some people did put in preventing integration was used to implement integration. > >> pax has a similar argument. > > > > Which one? > > The one that's always come with Solaris. Not a valid argumet as the pax that comes with Solaris is closed source. Star however implements the pax CLI and is OSS. > > I se a lack of significance in what has been done in the past. > > As a user, I don't have much invested in "star." I need GNU tar to read > and write files from Linux, but my interest wanes after that point. > Even if someone introduced an all-singing all-dancing archiver, I doubt > I'd download it, because the ones I have are more than sufficient for > the task. This seems tp be your problem.... If you did spend one or two hours in understanding star, you would most likely prefer to use star. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
