On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I booted x86_64 openSUSE 13.1 HD installation to try to begin Gentoo > installation, beginning from "Unpacking the stage tarball" on > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Stage : > > # tar xvjpf /pub/stage3-sh4-20120307.tar.bz2 --xattrs > > Tar (GNU tar) v1.26 reported > > unrecognized option '--xattrs' > > Searching the tar man page for 'xattrs' produced no hits, and same for bzip2 > man page. I rebooted into Debian Jessie instead to try again, and the same > command with Gnu tar 1.27.1 completed, apparently normally. ???
xattr support is optional in tar. In fact, with Gentoo you can set USE=xattr or -xattr and get a tar with/without it. Apparently OpenSUSE builds their tar without xattr support, while Debian includes support for it. System Rescue CD and the official Gentoo install CD both support xattr. -- Rich
