Bug 177678

Summary:	app-arch/tar: update and small corrections of man page [patch]
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Benno Schulenberg <bensberg>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	amitds
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	adds missing options and tweaks some sentences

Description Benno Schulenberg 2007-05-08 17:47:54 UTC

Tar's man page is lacking a description of several options that are new since 1.14.  Attached patch adds the missing ones.  It also puts the options in their correct alphabetical order, removes a duplicated option, and makes several other tweaks.  The only options that were left out are --seek and --sparse-version.

This also fixes bug #170691 and bug #168555.

Comment 1 Benno Schulenberg 2007-05-08 17:48:50 UTC

Created attachment 118600 [details, diff]
adds missing options and tweaks some sentences

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-08 17:54:43 UTC

Did you send this upstream?

Comment 3 Benno Schulenberg 2007-05-08 20:06:53 UTC

No, I did not send this upstream, as upstream does not contain a man page.  :)
The man page is Gentoo's.

Comment 4 Benno Schulenberg 2007-05-27 09:51:38 UTC

Any reason why the patch can't be applied?

Comment 5 ta2002 2007-06-13 14:56:34 UTC

I would like to see this applied (and it seems more important than "trivial" to me), as well

I just wasted a lot of time because the man page claims that "-l" means "--one-file-system" when it does not (maybe it used to).

Comment 6 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-07-07 17:03:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=118600) [edit]
> adds missing options and tweaks some sentences

tar --help shows even more options.
For example, "--add-file" and "--anchored" (to start in alphabetical order).

Comment 7 amitds 2009-07-30 10:14:38 UTC

In tar-1.20, '--owner' option is erroneously documented:

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2009-07/msg00013.html

Comment 8 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-03-10 13:55:15 UTC

ive merged this patch and more ... thanks

http://sources.gentoo.org/app-arch/tar/files/tar.1?r1=1.9&r2=1.10