Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> 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.
I recommend to use star instead as star always includes xattr support when the
platform where it has been compiler supports the feature.
Also note that the xattr implementaion in GNU tar that was "copied" from star
is wrong and may cause problems.
Jörg
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