FS#37763 - Tar manpage missing -d, --diff and --compare details

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andrew Turner (andrewturner) - Thursday, 14 November 2013, 14:21 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 14 November 2013, 20:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Tar manpage does not include reference to -d, --diff and --compare.

Yet these options are recognised by tar and work, as documented here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC66

Additional info:
* package version(s)
1.27

* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 14 November 2013, 20:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Thursday, 14 November 2013, 14:55 GMT
The man page has been removed entirely: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/tar&id=3f1594d0fb0440aa5950d817bed2adef6a84e01c

Search the forum for a discussion or two about it.
Comment by Andrew Turner (andrewturner) - Thursday, 14 November 2013, 15:11 GMT
ooh I see - sorry for the noise

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