On 03/05/2015 06:44 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > Silently ignore 'g' and 'x' type tar extended headers, rather than warning > about > "unknown (or unsupported) file type 'x'". > > It seems that base-files has an 'x' extended header for each file, apparently > to > store the mtime.
Would we ever need to actually honor extended attributes to correctly unpack a particular package? I guess as long as we don't have things like xattr for fine-grained capabilities as an alternative to traditional setuid, we haven't needed attributes so far. At any rate, ignoring extensions until we have both a need and the code for honoring the extension makes sense, so my question shouldn't stall your patch. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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