Jan de Groot schrieb:
This can be done by default, but capabilities aren't preserved when making tarballs. Every capability has to be set from post_install/post_upgrade in such cases. Maybe this is something worth to implement though.
Actually, bsdtar preserves them when packing, but upon extracting they are gone. I don't know if we can force pacman to make this work. Maybe, maybe not.
On another note: This [1] is something about fs caps, but "part two" didn't get finished, although it's November already. I have some code written to work with capabilities more (capchroot, capsudo), you can find the current status on http://projects.archlinux.org/. capchroot has a crappy config parser, capsudo is better but suffers from some small problems whose details I forgot. Both work though. I was going to explain those tools on "part two", but as I said, I haven't written it yet.
[1] http://archlinux.me/brain0/2009/07/28/using-posix-capabilities-in-linux-part-one/
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