Hello Bill,

AFAIK, there is a problem with Solaris' tar. I've seen a couple of other packages explicitly stating that their tarballs should be unarchived using GNU tar, and not the Solaris' one.

To Almighty Maintainers: would it worth to explicitly discourage the use of Solaris' tar?

Cheers, Kirill

Bill McEnaney wrote:

Hi, Everybody,

My name is "Bill." I thought you might want to hear about a problem I had tonight when I tried to untar the Ciao Prolog tarball on my Sunblade 100 Workstation. Solaris 8's tar command will complain about a directory checksum error if you try to untar Ciao Prolog's tarball with it. But GNU tar will untar that tarball without complainng. Just thought the information would help if you'll install Ciao on a Solaris 8 box.

Bill

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