James Carlson wrote
> Justin Banks wrote:
> > When untarring a tarball that was created with absolute paths, the tar
> > command should prepend a . to all pathnames unless specifically told not
> > to in order to keep the command from potentially clobbering all system
> > files. See 
> > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=1223447
> > which has been around since '05
> 
> Did you try "gtar" instead?

It's not for me, it's for my end-user customers. I can ask/recommend
that they use GNU tar, but they may not have it installed and may not
want to (or be unable to for administrative reasons).

-justinb

-- 
Justin Banks
BakBone Software
just...@bakbone.com
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