unsubscribe On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 16:55, Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> When enabling extended attribute support in a tar file (--xattrs) all > extended attributes are stored in the archive, however when the same > archive > is extracted only the user.* extended attributes are extracted. To have all > the extended attributes read and applied on extraction one must also use > the > '--xattrs-include=*' option. I find this behavior surprising and > especially so > given that the documentation indicates that "By default, when `--xattr' is > used, all names are stored in the archive (or extracted, if using > `--extract')"[1]. > > I'm happy to help working on resolving this issue but it isn't clear to me > whether the program or the documentation is incorrect. I've read some of > this > mailing list's archive but didn't find an explanation as to why > restoration of > only 'user.*' extended attributes would not be a bug[2]. > > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC70 > [2] Which I reported here https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?56421 > > Thanks, > -- > Brian Murray > > -- Ian Bentley
