Kristýna Streitová <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> it seems that we encountered a bug in star 1.5.3 as star is not able to
> preserve 'security.capability" extended attribute after extracting. The
> problem seems to be in the lchown() and set_xattr() calls order
> (star_unix.c). I'm attaching a simple patch that switches these two
> calls and solves this issue for us.

Thank you for the information.

It seems that the Linux kernel changed since 2003 and now clears the xattr
content with a chown() or lchown() call.

I modified star and released a new version in the schilytools.

A new star source package will be created the next weeks.


> Btw. Fedora encountered a similar issue in tar [1].

BTW: Fedora does not come with "tar", but with "gtar" ;-)

Jörg

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