Bug 434648
| Summary: | -l/--one-file-system documentation misleading | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | JW <ohtmvyyn> |
| Component: | tar | Assignee: | Radek Brich <rbrich> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-02-25 08:54:41 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description of problem: The tar man documentation indicates that "-l" and "--one-file-system" are one and the same. Unfortunately "-l" and "--check-links" are now one and the same. It would be a good idea to update the documentation, given such a dramatic change. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tar-1.17-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. select a filesystem with a mount point on it (eg /) 2. tar -c -l -f /somewhere/tarfile1 3. tar -c --one-file-system -f /somewhere/tarfile2 Actual results: tarfile1 and tarfile2 are not the same. Step2 probably filled /somewhere to overflowing. But man documentation says: >> -l, --one-file-system >> stay in local file system when creating an archiv Expected results: man documentation should be accurate Additional info: Info documentation is great, but who has the time to read such voluminous documentation? Some people prefer concise documentation such as man (if only the GNU people could come to terms with this alarming concept).