Bug 159606

Summary:	sys-fs/dd-rhelp uses obsolete tail and head syntax
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Craig Lawson <craig.lawson>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Joshua Kinard <kumba>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	tove
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	173523
Attachments:	tail_n_head.patch

Description Craig Lawson 2006-12-31 23:58:23 UTC

dd-rhelp uses older-style tail and head where +NUMBER was a valid command line option. Current tail and head don't like it and complain that if can't find the file "+NUMBER".

Comment 1 Craig Lawson 2007-01-01 00:00:37 UTC

Created attachment 105067 [details, diff]
tail_n_head.patch

Patch for dd-rhelp 0.0.6 to modernize use of head and tail.
Changes command line options:
   -NUMBER to -n NUMBER
   +NUMBER to -n +NUMBER

Comment 2 Craig Lawson 2007-01-01 00:01:49 UTC

(patch was also submitted upstream)

Comment 3 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-01-24 07:57:14 UTC

The package was removed from the tree.