Bug 168555 – app-arch/tar man page: option "-l" description is outdated

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ulrich Müller 2007-02-27 11:46:37 UTC]

The "tar" program from app-arch/tar-1.16.1 does not honor the "-l" ("ell") option. 

To reproduce, do:
$ tar -clvf /dev/null /
as compared to:
$ tar --one-file-system -cvf /dev/null /

In the first case, also the subdirs at different mount points are traversed.
The second case works as expected.

Last "good" version in the tree that does not show this error is tar-1.15.1-r1.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2007-02-27 15:34:41 UTC]

-l is --check-links, not --one-file-system ... look at the --help output

i'll fix the manpage

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2007-02-27 15:56:13 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> -l is --check-links, not --one-file-system ... look at the --help output
> i'll fix the manpage

I see. Not the first man page that is neglected by the GNU people ...

Silently _changing_ the meaning of an option without any transition period (with a deprecation warning) seems not very professional. Also upstream's fault, I guess.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-03-29 15:17:14 UTC]

*** Bug 172673 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2007-07-07 10:31:08 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> i'll fix the manpage

Still not fixed. Reopening.

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2007-07-07 10:43:40 UTC]

Created attachment 124135 [details, diff]
Patch for files/tar.1

[Comment 6 Ulrich Müller 2007-07-07 12:28:20 UTC]

Fixed this one and bug #170691, too.