On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:30:51PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
I've just been informed that unpacking the binary (i386) solaris distribution using bunzip2 and tar:
It may work better in future if you use a non-GNU tar to pack it up in the first place. GNU tar uses a non-standard tar format by default. Solaris tar would likely have more luck unpacking a POSIX/USTAR tar format file. It's also possible to use gnu tar to make standard tar format files, using --format ustar rather than gnu tar's default of --format gnu.
Is there something like pax(1) available on solaris? If so, it should be be preferred, because it's a POSIX tool, so there's some hope that it behaves the same on different systems. pax(1) should be available on all BSD systems, and to my knowledge, there's a pax package available at least for Debian Linux. Ciao, Kili