On my system, I've got both star and tar (GNU tar) installed. When I type "tar", /usr/bin/tar is executed, which is the tar from star: [18:16:55 alexander@server:/etc] $ ls -la /usr/bin/tar lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 7. Feb 18:15 /usr/bin/tar -> star It would be nice, if there were an "easy" way to run GNU tar. What I'm thinking of is to introduce a symlink /usr/bin/gtar > /bin/tar. On other real(tm) Unix systems like Solaris or with certain HP-UX packages, the link gtar -> GNU tar is already introduced. Because of that, such a symlink wouldn't be *THAT* far off :)
No, star shouldn't install a binary named tar or app-arch/tar and app-arch/star should block each other. (problematic, see Bug 33119)
bsd team: useful for you ? we only install the 'g' symlink on GNU systems when it's common, so we have 'gawk' and 'gmake', but not 'gsed' or 'gm4'
I'm using bsd tar for portage without problems at the moment, it has more features than gnu tar anyway, but I think gtar can be helpful when it depends on some syntax strictly gnu...
(In reply to comment #1) > No, star shouldn't install a binary named tar or app-arch/tar and app-arch/star > should block each other. (problematic, see Bug 33119) Hm? I don't really care that star installs as /usr/bin/tar. With this bug, I'd like to see a symlink /usr/bin/gtar -> /bin/tar or maybe /bin/gtar -> /bin/tar being introduced. So, even if there were no /usr/bin/tar -> /usr/bin/star symlink, I'd like to see a gtar symlink.
checked with fedora and they have gmake and gtar symlinks in their standard, so dropping in a gtar symlink should be ok
