On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 9:45:43 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > 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. > >
At least with 1.27.1 if you build it without xattrs and you have all the xattr deps installed you'll get a tar that appears to have it enabled but silently ignores it when extracting. -- Fernando Rodriguez
