Bug#505474: pax: Where are the other two interfaces?
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote: Good point. If you hard link the executable to 'tar' or 'cpio', it will supposedly emulate those user interfaces. If it does actually do that, it would merit a mention in README.Debian. Could be useful to someone sometime! -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | impeccable, a. not liable to detection (Bierce) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#505474: pax: Where are the other two interfaces?
Package: pax Version: 1:1.5-16 Severity: minor The package description (which could usefully be reformatted slightly, so that supported: comes on the previous line), says that pax supports the cpio and tar user interfaces, but nothing in the package that I can find tells you how to use those interfaces. Perhaps the Debian package of pax does not in fact support this interface? Either it should be documented, or the claim removed. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pax depends on: ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries pax recommends no packages. pax suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#505474: pax: Where are the other two interfaces?
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 19:41 +, Reuben Thomas wrote: The package description (which could usefully be reformatted slightly, so that supported: comes on the previous line), says that pax supports the cpio and tar user interfaces, but nothing in the package that I can find tells you how to use those interfaces. Perhaps the Debian package of pax does not in fact support this interface? Either it should be documented, or the claim removed. Good point. If you hard link the executable to 'tar' or 'cpio', it will supposedly emulate those user interfaces. But since we already have tar and cpio packages in Debian, I don't do anything to try and deliver those links. So the right answer is to remove that text from the package description, I think. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
