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On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 9:45:43 PM Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > I booted x86_64 openSUSE 13.1 HD installation to try to begin Gentoo |
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> > installation, beginning from "Unpacking the stage tarball" on |
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> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Stage : |
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> > |
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> > # tar xvjpf /pub/stage3-sh4-20120307.tar.bz2 --xattrs |
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> > Tar (GNU tar) v1.26 reported |
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> > |
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> > unrecognized option '--xattrs' |
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> > Searching the tar man page for 'xattrs' produced no hits, and same for |
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bzip2 |
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> > man page. I rebooted into Debian Jessie instead to try again, and the same |
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> > command with Gnu tar 1.27.1 completed, apparently normally. ??? |
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> xattr support is optional in tar. In fact, with Gentoo you can set |
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> USE=xattr or -xattr and get a tar with/without it. Apparently |
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> OpenSUSE builds their tar without xattr support, while Debian includes |
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> support for it. |
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> System Rescue CD and the official Gentoo install CD both support xattr. |
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At least with 1.27.1 if you build it without xattrs and you have all the xattr |
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deps installed you'll get a tar that appears to have it enabled but silently |
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ignores it when extracting. |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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