On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Romain Garbage wrote: > Hi, > > Following previous advice from questions_at_, I filed a PR for this > (bin/161749) and I'm forwarding the previous mail to this list: > > 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 > Usage: > List: tar -tf <archive-filename> > Extract: tar -xf <archive-filename> > Create: tar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...] > Help: tar --help > > 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? Thanks, Ben KadukReceived on Mon Oct 17 2011 - 20:25:28 UTC
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