Pierre Schmitz <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Finally some interesting discussion came out of this. I am not an expert on > linux capability support, but Thomas has posted two blog entries about this in > Arch: http://archlinux.me/brain0/2009/07/28/using-posix-capabilities-in-linux- > part-one/ and http://archlinux.me/brain0/2010/01/05/using-posix-capabilities- > in-linux-part-two/ I'll have a loot at it. > In general this should work fine. The only problem is that bsdtar did not > support storing those information (don't know if future versions support this) > so one has to use install scripts to adjust the permissions after install. I am not sure whether this is the best solution. I recommend to use star as star is the oldest free tar implementation and as it supports ACLs since 10 years already. Adding more meta data is relatively simple. e~A
