Bug 847881

Summary: RFE: allow extra arguments (like --exclude) to tar-out
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Andy Lutomirski <luto>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Andy Lutomirski 2012-08-13 21:56:19 UTC
I'd like to be able to exclude certain files from tarballs.  Can tar-out gain this feature?

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-08-13 21:59:55 UTC
See note here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847880#c1

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-08-14 14:52:06 UTC
Patches posted:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-August/msg00054.html

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-08-14 16:56:51 UTC
I pushed a less broken version of this patch upstream
in libguestfs 1.19.30.