Bug 89333 – dev-util/tla - tla get -H doesn't provide a pointer to detailed description of command

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Clock 2005-04-16 09:46:37 UTC]

I would normally post it to GNU Arch people, but these three sources of possible
bugreporting contact failed were of no use for me:
1) man tla
2) info tla
3) tla --help

tla get -H doesn't provide a clarification tha if the last entry (e.g.
base-0, patch-1 etc.) in "revision" is not declared, the latest revision is taken.

I suggest a pointer to more detailed description of the command, probably
in form of URL, was added.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.tla get -H
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
not enough descriptive description

Expected Results:  
A description descriptive enough so that command usage is clear for a newbie user.

Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 11 2005, 15:25:47)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl emboss
encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib
ipv6 jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses
nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline
ruby samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-04-16 09:51:03 UTC]

Ehm, what ebuild does this belong to? Use package-category/package-name-x-y when filing bugs. 

Also, please don

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-04-16 09:51:03 UTC]

Ehm, what ebuild does this belong to? Use package-category/package-name-x-y when filing bugs. 

Also, please don´t file many bugs for the same issue - you are complaining of insufficient documentation, right?

[Comment 3 Clock 2005-04-19 09:36:11 UTC]

Package is: dev-util/tla (GNU Arch)

[Comment 4 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2005-04-19 13:20:45 UTC]

The mailing lists are specified here: http://wiki.gnuarch.org/ as is the IRC channel