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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.

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.

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

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