Bug 1341786

Summary:	tar silently ignores --xattrs-exclude during archive creation
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Ian McLeod <imcleod>
Component:	tar	Assignee:	Tomas Repik <trepik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Robin Hack <rhack>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Lenka Kimlickova <lkimlick>
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.2	CC:	kvolny, praiskup, rhack, trepik
Target Milestone:	rc
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Doc Text:	"tar" options "--xattrs-exclude" and "--xattrs-include" no longer ignored Previously, the "tar" command ignored the "--xattrs-exclude" and "--xattrs-include" options. To fix this bug, "tar" has been modified to apply include and exclude masks when fetching extended attributes. As a result, the "--xattrs-exclude" and "--xattrs-include" options are no longer ignored.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	1341787 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2017-08-01 17:01:03 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1341787, 1393868, 1400961

Description Ian McLeod 2016-06-01 18:44:01 UTC

Description of problem:

When creating archives tar silently ignores --xattrs-exclude options.  More details, and a proposed patch can be found on the upstream mailing list here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-05/msg00032.html


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

All 1.28 versions and, it seems, all versions since this CLI option was added.

How reproducible:

Always.

Comment 2 Pavel Raiskup 2016-06-02 06:50:16 UTC

It would be nice to have it upstream first, though it is simple enough
and straight-forward patch (likely will be applied unchanged sooner or later)
so I believe we could go downstream first in this case.

Comment 3 Pavel Raiskup 2016-11-14 16:18:42 UTC

Upstream fixes:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=bb6ddd8e04c9a7a7
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=c81a0853bb8c5c6d

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 17:01:03 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:2012