[tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for Solaris10 x86

[Michael E. Thomadakis]

Good to know that native tar is also considered for UNIX OSs. I did got 
around that by just using the GNU version of tar.

thank you much for all the good work ...

Michael 

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Karl Berry wrote:

| Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:24:03 -0600
| From: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
| To: miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu
| Cc: tex-live at tug.org
| Subject: Re: TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for Solaris10
|     x86
| 
|     tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or directory
|     tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or directory
|     Installing: zwgetfdate
| 
| I think this particular error with tar has been fixed, so installation
| has a chance of working with non-GNU tar.
| 
| (There is another tar invocation used for backups upon update, and that
| one isn't fixed yet.)
| 
| Thanks again for the report.
| 
| karl
| 

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