| Summary: | <app-arch/tar-1.27: Man page does not list that -p is default for superuser | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Josh <keeperofdakeys> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | 496212 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
| Attachments: | patch adding "default for superuser" to man page | ||
Created attachment 301353 [details, diff]
patch adding "default for superuser" to man page
Patch for /usr/portage/app-arch/tar/files/tar.1
man page of >=tar-1.27 contains that piece of information. As we are already in the process of stabilizing =app-arch/tar-1.27.1-r1 let's wait for that version to become stable. |
The --help output states that -p is default for superuser, the man page does not. This is very confusing and should be fixed. The --help output: -p, --preserve-permissions, --same-permissions extract information about file permissions (default for superuser) --preserve same as both -p and -s --same-owner try extracting files with the same ownership as exists in the archive (default for superuser) The man tar output: -p, --preserve-permissions extract all protection information --same-owner create extracted files with the same ownership Reproducible: Always The tar man page is packaged separately, as the tar tarball does not come with a man page, so this isn't an upstream bug.