On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Curtis Doty wrote: > Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > >On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Curtis Doty wrote: > > > >>Hi, I'm the original poster of this patch to the redhat bugzilla. Where > >>it was closed summarily. However, I really thing adding support for > >>tarball extended attributes is increasingly valuable on selinux systems. > >> > >>And star seems to be the best tool for the job. Are there other ways of > >>safely extracting files from a tarball with these extensions? I'm happy > >>to rebuild the patch against the mc cvs if there is positive feedback. > >> > >>another reference: > >>http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star.html > >> > >> > > > >Since star archives are esentially tar archives with extended information > >I don't see why a extfs solution is necessary. We can just update the > >tar code to support the required extension keywords. It's just a matter of > >parsing a few strings. > > > > > Hrmm, maybe I'm over-thinking the problem, but according to this > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/star/star-1.5-selinux.patch > it had to be compiled against the selinux headers. Is that an > appropriate direction for mc/vfs/tar.c?
I think - yes. Btw there was at least one request (in bugzilla or the mailing list) about adding support for extended attributes to MC. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel