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Re: xattr support in live-installer?



Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (2014-04-09):
> Would it make sense to modify attr to build udebs, then change
> live-installer to do a getcap/setcap run after transferring files with
> tar?  I think this is probably going to be simpler than adding xattr
> support to busybox tar (in GNU tar that depends on a specific archive
> format, so I'm guessing it's not exactly trivial).  Even if we did go
> for the latter approach instead, we'd probably still need at least a
> libattr1-udeb.

It seems to me that attr is sufficiently small for us not to worry too
much about adding udebs there and using them in d-i. Patching busybox
indeed looks less straightforward, and possibly more error-prone.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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