[tex-live] Bug report - tl-install fails on Solaris due to tar assumptions

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Tue Jun 30 09:46:46 CEST 2009


On Di, 30 Jun 2009, Andre van Eyssen wrote:
> It's ugly, but perhaps cpio? That gives longer than 100 chars without 

No, because we would hit into the same incompatibilities between
different cpoi versions we have already with tar. And I am less sure
that cpio is present on *all* systems we support.

> >I'm surprised it hasn't come up before.
> 
> There tends to be an assumption in a lot of open source circles now that 

No, we already try to not use any gnu cmdline syntax. And we do *not*a
ssume GNU Linux/x86/etc, but still some decen tar ;-)

Best wishes

Norbert

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