bugGNU tar - Bugs: bug #56287, Please extract extended attributes...

 
 

bug #56287: Please extract extended attributes by default

Submitter:  Balint Reczey <rbalint>
Submitted:  Wed 08 May 2019 10:46:57 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Wed 08 May 2019 10:46:57 AM UTC, original submission:  

To extract files with extended attributes --xattrs --xattrs-include='*' needs to be passed to tar, otherwise the extended attributes present it the tarball are silently ignored.

This may lead to accidentally loosing extended attributes when extracting root filesystems and in general violates the principle of least astonishment by silently ignoring data.

The problem was originally reported at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tar/+bug/1785291

Extracting extended attributes should be safe and the only related problem I know of is fakeroot not supporting it yet, but this probably does not affect a lot of users:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908060

Balint Reczey <rbalint>

 

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