Matthew Burgess wrote: > 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.
Well, I've complained, but not out loud. :) >> 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? Jim just sent a link that does just that. I'm not sure that all that is necessary. It has to be regenerated for every new release. I would think it would just as easy to provide it as a separate download and copy it to /usr/share/man/man1. It's a lot more obvious what is going on than a patch. Here are the options: download patch patch -Np1 -i ... or download man page install -m644 tar.1 /usr/share/man/man1 As far as why tar doesn't just do it, I suppose they are hard liners who think that info is better, but I really don't know. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
