Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:52:17 GMT From: Romain Garbage <romain.garbage@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/161749: bsdtar --gname and --uname switches not working Message-ID: <201110171652.p9HGqHbr040996@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201110171700.p9HH0Mxd027730@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 161749 >Category: bin >Synopsis: bsdtar --gname and --uname switches not working >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 17 17:00:21 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Romain Garbage >Release: 9.0-BETA3 (r226421) >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD freebsd-laptop.toulouse.local 9.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 #0 r226421: Sun Oct 16 13:10:42 CEST 2011 root@freebsd-laptop.toulouse.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: According to bsdtar(1) manpage, tar has --gname end --uname switches that permits to set respectively an arbitrary groupname/username for the files added to 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 >How-To-Repeat: $ tar -cf foo.tar --gname root bar $ tar -cf foo.tar --uname root bar >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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