-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-04-06 at 12:39 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote:
It is not as simple as that.
If a different set of options corrected the problem they found, they would have said so and write up the correct encantation. But no, they said it was a bug.
It has to be some bug, then, probably corrected since, or maybe not. I can't say unless they say what the bug was.
If it was an actual bug, then tar would be completely broken, and not fit for use under any circumstance.
If he says "bug" then I have to trust him and think it was a bug. A bug doesn't have to affect all uses of a program. I know the current kernel we use has bugs... I know some of them. Is the kernel unfit for use under any circumstance, then?
The editor was just lazy... or, giving him the benefit of the doubt, didn't realize that these flags had been created and were now available.
I'll grant him laziness, for not specifying the bug. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH+R+MtTMYHG2NR9URAo5nAJ9eMbo8K1CEssk+bh2hO3u5BJ5HjwCfYJ73 uiGh8Df2gifO/DjopXnlkqQ= =ejbb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org