> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:58:56PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > - Users who are unpacking root tarballs need to take care to pass
> > --xattrs-include=* to tar.
>
> The tar documentation suggests that just --xattrs should be enough:
>
> By default, when '--xattr' is used, all names are stored in the
> archive (or extracted, if using '--extract').
>
> Am I missing something?
For the record, I've found out[1] this is actually an upstream bug in
the documentation for which I have submitted some patches to clarify the
behavior of --xattrs-include.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2019-06/msg00002.html
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