Re: [Bug-tar] tar and file meta data....

[Ondrej Vasik]

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 02:10 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2011-11-01, at 2:08 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Linda A. Walsh <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> >> so...  plans for tar?
> > 
> > Support for POSIX ACLs is in my todo list.  I cannot give you any exact
> > timeline, though.
> 
> Is there any plan to include the xattr/ACL patches from RHEL6 tar?
> Possibly it was discussed such a long time ago that I forgot about
> it, but I don't recall whether or why those patches are not landed.

AFAIK the issues with Fedora/RHEL patch were summarized in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-08/msg00005.html . Most
of them were already addressed - we do plan to submit the xattrs patch
for upstream inclusion consideration again it will have propper test
coverage. 
As the main limitation at the moment I see the fact that there is no
test coverage of selinux/xattr/acl support - which recently resulted in
complete breakage of this support in Fedora 15/16 (see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717684 for details). Basic
test coverage is in todo list, however I don't have any ETA for this.

Greetings,
         Ondrej Vasik