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Title: tar --xattr and --xattr-include=* should be defaults Status in tar package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: As discussed at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu- devel/2018-August/040407.html ff, as of Ubuntu 18.04 an Ubuntu root filesystem uses xattrs for storing filesystem capabilities. We should therefore have defaults for our tar that preserve these attributes without needing to pass additional commandline options. Currently when creating a tarball you must pass the non-default option --xattrs and when extracting a tarball you must pass the non-default option --xattrs-include=*. The latter is particularly awkward, and Colin Watson found some version of tar documentation that suggests --xattrs-include=* should never be needed, only --xattrs. But that doesn't appear in the version of tar(1) in bionic, and in practice --xattrs-include=* is definitely required. Ideally we want this changed in upstream tar as well since we can't rely on users using the Ubuntu build of tar to unpack their Ubuntu filesystems; but even without this we should change the default in Ubuntu to take the sharp edges off for our users where possible. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/+bug/1785291/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
