[Python-Dev] TAR problems under Solaris

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Anthony Baxter wrote:
>>Dunno, but I'm always having problems w/ Solaris tar, so I just use
>>GNU tar on Solaris. ;)
> 
> 
> Maybe we should switch to cpio-based distributions?

Peace, brother... Err, pax(1).

-bash-3.00$ uname -a
SunOS tb3 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
-bash-3.00$ bunzip2 -c Python-2.4.2.tar.bz2 |pax -r
pax: ././@LongLink : Unknown filetype

This message refers to the links in
Mac/OSXResources/app/Resources/English.lproj/Documentation/ide

Apart from that, pax extracts it the same way as gtar.

Regards,
Martin

P.S. I always ROTFL when I see mentioning of the "tar wars"
in the POSIX standard.