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Hi Dale, |
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Thursday, February 14, 2008, 3:10:09 AM, you wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: |
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>>>> attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file systems, |
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>>>> used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use these features, |
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>>>> you already are aware of it. |
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>>> So, if I use reiserfs w/o ext attrs (option in kernel), I don't need |
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>>> it probably. Correct? |
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>> You certainly don't need it, as attr doesn't support reiser. I'm looking |
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>> at my own reiser-based machine and wondering why on earth I ever merged |
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>> it myself |
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> I have attr on here as well. This is what equery says: |
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> root@smoker / # equery depends attr |
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> [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ] |
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> app-backup/dar-2.2.6 (acl? sys-apps/attr) |
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> gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.20.1-r1 (acl? sys-apps/attr) |
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> sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (>=sys-apps/attr-2.4) |
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> sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (xattr? sys-apps/attr) |
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> root@smoker / # |
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> Seems like a few packages depend on it here. OP, have you had any of |
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> these installed at some point? |
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In my system only one package which requires attr is |
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sys-apps/coreutils. But because acl support is disabled, it does not |
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need attr too. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Sergey |
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