RFC: baseline requirements for Ubuntu rootfs: xattrs and fscaps

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Thu Aug 2 12:22:07 UTC 2018


On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:58:56PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>  - Users who are unpacking root tarballs need to take care to pass
>    --xattrs-include=* to tar.

The tar documentation suggests that just --xattrs should be enough:

  By default, when '--xattr' is used, all names are stored in the
  archive (or extracted, if using '--extract').

Am I missing something?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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