[Rpm-maint] Version of Tar used with RPM

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Hugh Caley wrote:

> I hope this is the right forum for this.  There were only two forums
> listed at rpm.org.
>
> I need to get RPM on AIX to use GNU tar, and I can't figure out how to
> do it. I'm setting the %__tar macro to /opt/freeware/bin/tar in
> my .rpmmacros file, but the %setup phase of the RPM build still insists
> on using "tar" (which means it uses the first tar it finds in the PATH,
> which is /usr/bin/tar).
>
> As  you can see from the output below, it is respecting my definition of
> the location of gzip, but not tar:
>
>
>> + tar -xf -
>> + /opt/freeware/bin/gzip -dc /home/hughc/redhat/SOURCES/SecurityServer-1.1A.tgz
>
> I can't just put /opt/freeware/bin first in my path; we have GCC and the
> various GNU build utilities installed, and it breaks XLC.
>
> Anyone know how to do this?
>
> RPM version is rpm-3.0.5-30; since this is the only version that IBM
> provides, I'm probably not going to be able to upgrade it, but if that
> would be the only solution ...

tar seems to be hardcoded to "tar" in even rpm 4.4.x, it's probably that 
way in 3.x too. Try aliasing tar to /opt/freeware/bin/tar to limit the 
impact?

 	- Panu -