Stupid Solaris tricks #1.243e+11.

[reddragdiva]

If you tar a Solaris 9 CD with GNU tar 1.13.25 (written 2001) and scp it to a Solaris 7 box, tar on the receiving box will do tar tvf just fine but claim directory checksum errors when you try to tar xvf. In different places each time. I'm now trying again making the tar file on another Solaris 7 box.

(I am trying to get the CD image to machines that are at the colo and on the other side of the firewall, so as not to have to go out in person. Told you it was stupid.)

Update: The CD appears to present a subtly different directory structure to Red Hat (which presumably looks at Joliet first) and Solaris 7 (which only does Rock Ridge). How clever.