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:
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 Kaduk
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