[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] fs: apply permissions late

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Nov 12 08:17:47 UTC 2018


On 2018-11-11 21:02 +0100, Peter Korsgaard spake thusly:
> >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:
>  > Oh, you poinpoint an issue: the tar filesystem must be also modified to
>  > add --xattrs-include='*' otherwise it would not contain any xattrs, and
>  > even less so, any capabilty.
> 
> I believe my tests showed that --xattrs-include isn't needed when
> creating the tarball (but _IS_ needed when extracting), as long as
> --xattrs is passed.

Right, but the tar filesystem does have to be fixed, anyway.

I don't like it that the extraction is not symetric to the creation, and
since this has puzzled us (and a lot of other people), I'd prefer if we
were explicit which xattrs we ionclude.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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