fs/tar: add support for xattrs (thus capabilties)
authorYann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:33:12 +0000 (18:33 +0100)
committerPeter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:28:07 +0000 (23:28 +0100)
commit6d688e2132f9feb63e325c2456d23edfc53f79a8
treecc253229acbc95b96df4f8f9c9c010a3c22956fc
parent43e6de35e934429f51fc7c0efa49b7e163e9ea7a
fs/tar: add support for xattrs (thus capabilties)

By default, tar will not include any extended attribute (xattr) when
creating archives, and thus will not store capabilties either (as they
are stored in the xattr 'security.capability').

Using option --xattrs is enough to create a tarball with all the xattrs
attached to a file. However, extracting all xattrs from a tarball
requires that --xattrs-include='*' be used. This is not symetric (but on
purpose, as per the documentation), and so is confusing to some.

So, we use --xattrs-include='*' to create the archive, so as to be
explicit that we want all xattrs to be stored.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Ricardo Martincoski <ricardo.martincoski@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
fs/tar/tar.mk