...And then I found this: http://stupidunixlinuxtricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/be-careful-of-solaris-tar-command.html

Frakking Solaris! Stone knives and bearskins. I suspected chroot might be involved somehow.

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com> wrote:
Huh. I tried -C, and it didn't seem to work! Or at least, not the way I expected?


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Sean Cody <sean@tinfoilhat.ca> wrote:
Try tar xvf file.tar -C /tmp/someotherroot/

On 2011-08-19, at 7:19 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:

> I have a TAR file (well, many) created with Solaris 10. I can restore it under same, but it seems the Solaris version of tar doesn't give you the option of stripping the leading "/" when restoring, which is a slight problem for my situation.
>
> Did I miss something, and it can restore to a relative path after all?
> Does anyone have any other suggestions, such as other utilities to use or even OSs with a more flexible tar that can mount a UFS slice?
>
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