On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:41:39 -0500, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Sinve tar-1.21, there are spurious messages when extracting like: > > Record size = 8 blocks > > There is a fix for this in the git repository. Should we apply this or > just wait for the next release of tar?
I'd suggest we just wait for the next release. It's only a warning and we've been ignoring it for a while now without anyone (to my knowledge) complaining about it. > Speaking of tar, it's reasonably well known that tar has no man page. > Should we produce one from help2man? (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/) (CMMI > but > perl module Locale::gettext is required) By this, I'm suggesting that we > might > offer a download or tar.1, not install help2man. I'd suggest we offer one as a patch (including the relevant Makefile bits to install it during 'make install'). Out of interest, do you know if there's a particular reason why tar does not ship a manpage? Thanks, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
