[Bug 1313550] Re: ping does not work as a normal user on trusty tarball cloud images.

[Scott Moser]

Serge,
  I don't see why new files would make something non-SRU-able.
  I dont' think that is a blocker in and of itself.

 The complexity of the patch and likelyhood of regression is the bigger
concern.

 We have a real bug here, and we have 2 ways to fix it (possibly others that i've not thought of):
a.) backport functionality into 'tar' and then make programs able to use that functionality in exactly the same way that they would/do in Utopic.
b.) craft a special tarball that has a '.xattrs_hack file in it, and then SRU patches to programs to say something like "if there is a .xattrs_hack file in a tarball, then apply those attributes with setfattr and then remove .xattrs_hack".

b seems a hack, and probably means adding a dependency on 'attr' to maas
and lxc. Admittedly maas only has this problem in saucy and trusty (and
saucy EOL shortly).  So lxc on precise is the real issue.

In summary, to fix this bug in precise, we can do it fairly cleanly (and
I think probably pretty safely) with 'a', or hackily in 'b'.

If I were SRU team, 'a' would look more appealing, or some other option
I havent thought of.

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