bin/165873: tar(1) manpage advertises --uid and --gid which seem to be not implemented

Mark Johnston markjdb at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 08:37:19 UTC 2012


On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:32:34AM +0200, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> On 2012-03-10, Mark wrote:
> >  The options are implemented on 8- and 9-stable and current. I'm not
> >  sure how exactly this happened - it looks like libarchive and bsdtar
> >  were moved to contrib/ right after 9 was released, and some upstream
> >  updates were merged in the process. I guess it was an oversight, but
> >  there's nothing to do since the options are there now.
> 
> Thanks for this information. Does this also apply to bin/161749?
> 

Yep, since the report mentions 9-BETA3, which was before 9-RELEASE.

-Mark


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