RFC: baseline requirements for Ubuntu rootfs: xattrs and fscaps

[Brian Murray]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 01:22:07PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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?

For the record, I've found out[1] this is actually an upstream bug in
the documentation for which I have submitted some patches to clarify the
behavior of --xattrs-include.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2019-06/msg00002.html

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Brian Murray