Sandbox may behave incorrectly using non GNU tar

Bug #239630 reported by Giuseppe Maxia
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
MySQL Sandbox
Fix Released
Medium
Giuseppe Maxia

Bug Description

the tar tool may be different across operating systems.
The Sandbox may behave wrongly or fail if the tar being used is not the GNU tar.
The Sandbox must check which tar is using prior to attempting to unpack

Tags: gnu solaris tar
Revision history for this message
Giuseppe Maxia (giuseppe-maxia) wrote :

need to test on Solaris to assess how serious it is

Changed in mysql-sandbox:
assignee: nobody → giuseppe-maxia
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Giuseppe Maxia (giuseppe-maxia) wrote :

This bug was confirmed by a Solaris user.
A possible workaround is to convert
tar -xzf filename
to
gunzip -c filename | tar -x

Changed in mysql-sandbox:
importance: Low → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Giuseppe Maxia (giuseppe-maxia) wrote :

added a check for GNU tar as a temporary workaround.

Changed in mysql-sandbox:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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