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OpenSolaris Project: Star integration/migration project

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What are we doing

The star integration/migration project is an effort to integrate the programs from the star project into OpenSolaris according to PSARC 2004/480.

The first step is to add star to /usr/sfw, to replace /etc/rmt by rmt from the star package and to let ufsdump/ufsrestore use librmt from the star package. The second step is to replace /usr/bin/tar by star.

The following tasks needed to be done:
  • Add star* to /usr/sfw/bin
  • Replace /etc/rmt with rmt from star
  • Add librmt to /usr/sfw/lib
  • Modify ufsdump/ufsrestore to use librmt


  • As all Schily tools use a common portability library/include-file framework (similar to ksh93) and as a complete version of cdrtools is available in Solaris 10 and later, we first need to decide whether the libraries libdeflt, librmt and libschily should be made available as shared libraries and whether librmt should deoend on libschil.