>Number:         20393
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       pax does not understand -xf.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Feb 17 11:54:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jesse Kempf
>Release:        pkgsrc under SunOS 5.9
>Organization:
>Environment:
SunOS kempfj2 5.9 Generic_112233-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
>Description:
For some ungodly reason, pkgsrc under SunOS 5.9 incessantly tries to use pax instead of tar, whilst sending pax the flags that tar understands. Pax doesn't seem to undertsand pax -xf foo.tar. When it sees it, it barfs. This results in my inability to even begin doing unsuccessful builds of the ports tree on Solaris 9.
>How-To-Repeat:
Have the misfortune of using pax instead of tar.
>Fix:
Blow the bootstrap-pkgsrc included tar and pax. Grab the latest version of gnutar, build and install it, and make symlinks in /usr/pkg/bin for tar, gtar, and pax that all point to the newly installed tar.
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