[tex-live] TeXLive 2008 installation over the Internet breaks for Solaris10 x86

[Arthur Reutenauer]

>     tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such file or directory
> 
> This message tells me that although we attempted to make all our tar
> invocations work with vendor tars, apparently we failed on your
> i386-solaris system.

  If I'm not mistaken, /dev/rmt is the device name for the tape drives
on Solaris, and the default input / output location for Solaris tar
(Tape ARchive).  Maybe there is some switch to work around that, and we
don't need to expect "tar" to behave like GNU tar.

  On the other hand, Solaris comes with quite a lot of GNU software
nowadays (/usr/sfw contains free programs compiled by SunFreeWare); it's
probably safe to assume that if there is a "gtar" in the PATH, it's GNU
tar, and to use that one instead of "tar".

	Arthur