From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ju791-0001pW-EI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 14:30:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71972E056B; Thu, 8 May 2008 14:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49DBBE056B for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 14:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2EAB67821 for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 14:30:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.892 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.892 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.707, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76yoCqJsKIK6 for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 14:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D7F67803 for ; Thu, 8 May 2008 14:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ju78i-0006aC-R9 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 14:30:32 +0000 Received: from adsl-ull-250-54.48-151.net24.it ([151.48.54.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 May 2008 14:30:32 +0000 Received: from flameeyes by adsl-ull-250-54.48-151.net24.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 May 2008 14:30:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=) Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 16:30:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1210166592.19574.10.camel@localhost> <20080507185239.541383c9@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <4822FD54.4000904@gentoo.org> <20080508142844.0c5af157@snowcone> <482300F2.9030403@gentoo.org> <20080508143606.67bcfe6e@snowcone> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-ull-250-54.48-151.net24.it User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YTgYyPUkARGkHctQZnRFMsfQ318= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 05dde786-c6d2-474b-8111-1ae6da74a428 X-Archives-Hash: ee61887939acb1e6d5f761c0c16601bd --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ciaran McCreesh writes: > You miss my point. GNU tar sometimes changes its on disk format (and > will be doing so again at some point for xattrs) It's not really important to the discussion, but... The TAR format is designed as such that on disk formats can be extended without breaking entirely backward compatibility. For what it's worth, extended attributes and ACLs are already supported by star (Schilling's) and bsdtar (libarchive). The fact that GNU tar doesn't support them at the moment is a different problem. On the other hand, even if the GNU tar does not support reading those attributes, it does handle them gracefully, warning the user of unknown extended headers, and then proceeding to unpack the data without preserving the extended attributes. So what Doug said stands perfectly and does not interest GNU tar at all. =2D-=20 Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=C3=B2 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkgjDn8ACgkQe2h1+2mHVWPCAgCfZgTbv5KUesPLpyYpLhQS7/oo WFwAn1k+UL1aS0gQ1bNntHPjv7DA/oY+ =twQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list