Re: No manual entry for tar?

["Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

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Eric Blake wrote:
> Normal.  The upstream tar maintainer doesn't go to the efforts of creating
> one in his tarball, so I don't put forth any additional effort to make one
> myself.  The GNU Coding Standards recommend the info format ('info tar')
> over the man format, and although many GNU packages provide both, there is
> no obligation that they must.  Also try using 'tar --help'.

Is this becoming a FAQ wrt tar?

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg01247.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00359.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00363.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg01166.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00919.html
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00022.html

BTW the following should give you tar manpages (requires help2man):

help2man -s 1 -o /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1 tar

for l in $(find /usr/share/locale -name tar.mo | sed -e
's#/usr/share/locale/\(.*\)/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo#\1#'); do
mkdir -p /usr/share/man/$l/man1;
help2man -s 1 -L $l -o /usr/share/man/$l/man1/tar.1 tar;
if diff -u /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1 /usr/share/man/$l/man1/tar.1
&>/dev/null; then
# no localized help after all
rm /usr/share/man/$l/man1/tar.1;
fi
done

(Exercise: this could be adapted and used in the .cygport file.)


Yaakov
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