Bug 86103
| Summary: | tar man page out of sync with tar --help | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jack Tanner <ihok> |
| Component: | tar | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-11-19 15:21:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I'm sorry. Even though u are right i won't fix it. Both variants work correctly. It's just detail, which does not stand for patch. Try report to upstream. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Description of problem: # tar --help says that --bzip2 is a valid option # man tar says that --bzip (note lack of '2') is a valid option In actuality, both options work correctly. The man page and the help message should be reconciled for consistency. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-pages-1.53-1, tar-1.13.25-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # tar --help 2. # man tar 3. Additional info: