bug#41081: coreutils: cp is built without xattr support

[Tim Komarov]

It's often very useful to run:

 

# cp --preserve=xattr aaa.txt  bbb.txt

Running this on Guix I get:

 

cp: cannot preserve extended attributes, cp is built without xattr support

 

I.e., it's used in Yocto build system.

 

There is a workaround: https://github.com/mnd/guix-mnd-pkgs/blob/master/mnd/packages/coreutils.scm, but I believe that this should be considered as bug and fixed in upstream (like Fedora did https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603359).

 

Thank you!

 

 

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Best regards,

Timofey Komarov