From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 22:25:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37051106564A for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:25:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaduk@mit.edu) Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu (DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-1.MIT.EDU [18.9.25.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91828FC1E for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:25:27 +0000 (UTC) X-AuditID: 1209190c-b7fd26d0000008df-15-4e9cab575aec Received: from mailhub-auth-2.mit.edu ( [18.7.62.36]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-1.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 77.B3.02271.75BAC9E4; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:25:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-2.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id p9HMPQMw030239; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:25:26 -0400 Received: from multics.mit.edu (MULTICS.MIT.EDU [18.187.1.73]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as kaduk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id p9HMPOvO007585 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:25:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kaduk@localhost) by multics.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id p9HMPN2U001594; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:25:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:25:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk To: kientzle@freebsd.org, Romain Garbage In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (GSO 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-559023410-1228076958-1318890323=:882" X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFupgleLIzCtJLcpLzFFi42IRYrdT0Q1fPcfPYEEPm8WcNx+YLC7u3cpm 8fTAQzYHZo8Zn+azeOycdZc9gCmKyyYlNSezLLVI3y6BK+PVuV6mgvN8FXu+9rI2MDbydDFy ckgImEhc7TnHCGGLSVy4t56ti5GLQ0hgH6PE/ScfWCCcDYwSR/ceYQGpEhI4wCRxuYMXItHA KHFyzmxWkASLgLbE7VULwWw2ARWJmW82soHYIgLOErMPXGICsZkF5CX+X7kMZgsLKEl8vfCI uYuRg4NTIFDiUr8bSJhXwF7izb4prBC7pjJKzGvXBrFFBXQkVu+fwgJRIyhxcuYTFoiR/hL7 dy5mnMAoOAtJahaS1CygDcwCZhIb9mZDhLUl7t9sY1vAyLKKUTYlt0o3NzEzpzg1Wbc4OTEv L7VI11AvN7NELzWldBMjKMA5JXl2ML45qHSIUYCDUYmHVzJtjp8Qa2JZcWXuIUZJDiYlUV7v VUAhvqT8lMqMxOKM+KLSnNTiQ4wSHMxKIrzh1UA53pTEyqrUonyYlDQHi5I478EdDn5CAumJ JanZqakFqUUwWRkODiUJXn+QoYJFqempFWmZOSUIaSYOTpDhPEDDi0FqeIsLEnOLM9Mh8qcY FaXEeSNBEgIgiYzSPLheWAJ6xSgO9IowrxNIFQ8wecF1vwIazAQ0+JXSTJDBJYkIKakGxh2r T+6v1Kx5d1rvwNzTkX4+V8rWP6r49NDol6kNT901g9OvjjKv2nXguEnQhPoAs4DNMx8zXQz4 VqpwftPDT3rvveNOXWrYdOOjxxK+iP+cf1LOa6iEPLk/UePy9iJem3vVO+5emf3/zJa6R7nL lV3b1kTzdwe425nPkdvgVLLuTEz9B/5bhTeUWIozEg21mIuKEwHIDUItGwMAAA== Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdtar --gname switch X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:25:28 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---559023410-1228076958-1318890323=:882 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Romain Garbage wrote: > Hi, > > Following previous advice from questions@, 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: > =C2=A0List: =C2=A0 =C2=A0tar -tf > =C2=A0Extract: tar -xf > =C2=A0Create: =C2=A0tar -cf [filenames...] > =C2=A0Help: =C2=A0 =C2=A0tar --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=20 long-option synonyms that were previously undocumented", which added the=20 gname long-format option to bsdtar.1. However, this option is not present= =20 in usr.bin/tar/cmdline.c in FreeBSD head, though it was added in r2349 of= =20 upstream libarchive sources on May 1, 2010. So, it looks like it should=20 have been in libarchive since 2.8.4; however, pulling tarballs for 2.8.4=20 and 2.8.5 it does not seem that gname is listed in cmdline.c for either of= =20 them. I'm not familiar with the libarchive release process; Tim, can you shed=20 some insight on what happened here? Thanks, Ben Kaduk ---559023410-1228076958-1318890323=:882--