Subject: Re: pkg_add failed under Solaris 2.7: wrong tar command called.
To: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
From: Pierre Bourgin <pierre.bourgin@pcotech.fr>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/06/2003 13:19:59
grant beattie a écrit:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:09:14AM +0200, Pierre Bourgin wrote:
> 
> 
>>In fact, this is because uses the wrong tar command: instead of using
>>/usr/pkg/bin/tar, it's using 'tar' from $PATH environnment: in my case,
>>it will use solaris tar (/usr/bin/tar) instead of /usr/pkg/bin/tar
>>because my $PATH is something like "/usr/bin:/usr/pkg/bin" (in that order).
>>
>>Of course, I don't want to modify the way I constructed the $PATH
>>variable, because this is a solaris related development software server
>>   and its environment must as closer as possible to solaris poor tools ;-)
>>
>>Please read PR pkg/23070 for this problem and a proposed patch.
> 
> you are right, I must have missed this. I've fixed it in
> pkgtools/pkg_install, and I'll update bootstrap-pkgsrc shortly. thanks!

Thanks too : it's a pleasure to contribute my 2cents to such a great and 
usefull tool !

Regards,

Pierre Bourgin