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Re: [PATCH setup 4/4] Silently ignore 'x' and 'g' type tar extended headers


On 03/05/2015 06:44 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Silently ignore 'g' and 'x' type tar extended headers, rather than warning about
> "unknown (or unsupported) file type 'x'".
> 
> It seems that base-files has an 'x' extended header for each file, apparently to
> store the mtime.

Would we ever need to actually honor extended attributes to correctly
unpack a particular package?  I guess as long as we don't have things
like xattr for fine-grained capabilities as an alternative to
traditional setuid, we haven't needed attributes so far.  At any rate,
ignoring extensions until we have both a need and the code for honoring
the extension makes sense, so my question shouldn't stall your patch.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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