Re: [Bug-tar] Difference in Distro of tar

[Ondřej Vašík]

Andy Shepard wrote:
> Hello,
> Just a general question-was wondering whether gnu tar as distributed
> by RH and Centos are related to this distro?  For example, the
> RH/Centos version has support for the --xattr argument but this distro
> doesn't.  

  This is mailing list of upstream of GNU tar - RH/Centos rpm package is
based on tarballs released by upstream. xattrs/acl/selinux support is
added by Red Hat specific patch, it was proposed to upstream in its
beginning
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-08/msg00004.html) ,
there are few blockers for upstream consideration/acceptance, one is
absence of test suite for it (we know about it and it's in todo list),
other objections were addressed (better autoconf checks,documentation,
obsolete patch base ...). Once it will be ready for upstream
consideration in our opinion, we'll propose it again, based on latest
git.

Main differences in tar distributed by Red Hat are: 
 - SELinux/acl/xattr support
 - different defaults for wildcards
Other changes are just cosmetic.

Greetings,
         Ondřej Vašík

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