Bug#446877: attr(1) implies it only works with XFS

2007-10-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Nathan Scott wrote: All sounds good to me - please send a patch with those changes. Attached. To confirm what I've done: 0. I've replaced .P by .PP, in the pages I've edited as according to groff_man(7), they are aliases for the same command, and I wasted a few

Bug#446877: attr(1) implies it only works with XFS

2007-10-17 Thread nscott
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Nathan Scott wrote: All sounds good to me - please send a patch with those changes. Attached. To confirm what I've done: Thanks Reuben! I'll get this merged upstream upload a package with these changes soon. cheers. -- Nathan

Bug#446877: attr(1) implies it only works with XFS

2007-10-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: attr Version: 1:2.4.39-1 Severity: minor attr(1) says: Extended attributes implement the ability for a user to attach name:value pairs to objects within the XFS filesystem. In fact, other file systems can use extended attributes. I suggest you change within the XFS filesystem to on

Bug#446877: attr(1) implies it only works with XFS

2007-10-16 Thread Nathan Scott
Hi there, attr(1) is intended only for XFS - it is an IRIX-compatibility command, and there are parts of the tool that only work on the XFS filesystem (in particular, those options that deal with the ROOT namespace are XFS-specific). On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:07 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:

Bug#446877: attr(1) implies it only works with XFS

2007-10-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Nathan Scott wrote: attr(1) is intended only for XFS - it is an IRIX-compatibility command, and there are parts of the tool that only work on the XFS filesystem (in particular, those options that deal with the ROOT namespace are XFS-specific). In that case, a note near

Bug#446877: attr(1) implies it only works with XFS

2007-10-16 Thread Nathan Scott
All sounds good to me - please send a patch with those changes. -- Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]