On Oct 17, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Romain Garbage wrote: >> >> According to bsdtar(1) manpage, tar has a --gname switch that permits >> to set an arbitrary groupname in the tar archive, but: >> $ tar -cf foo.tar --gname root bar >> tar: Option --gname is not supported >> >> I get the same error for --uname and --gid switches. I'm running >> 9.0-BETA3 (r226421). Does this have any chances to be corrected in a >> not to far away future? > > This is, at present, a documentation bug. > FreeBSD svn revision 207786 was "Various manpage updates, including many > long-option synonyms that were previously undocumented", which added the > gname long-format option to bsdtar.1. However, this option is not present in > usr.bin/tar/cmdline.c in FreeBSD head, though it was added in r2349 of > upstream libarchive sources on May 1, 2010. So, it looks like it should have > been in libarchive since 2.8.4; however, pulling tarballs for 2.8.4 and 2.8.5 > it does not seem that gname is listed in cmdline.c for either of them. > > I'm not familiar with the libarchive release process; Tim, can you shed some > insight on what happened here?
Looks like the manpage got updated to the latest version from libarchive/trunk. Unfortunately, some of the features described there are not present in libarchive 2.8. It looks like it might be easy to back port some of these features. They don't seem to rely on any of the deeper changes to libarchive internals that have happened since 2.8. Tim _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
