Description of problem: user/root xattrs aren't copied (in fact only selinux and posix_acl's are copied ... but we don't have any other non user/root xattrs apart from those, so...) Additional info: I've created a path for coreutils which does this for cp/mv, there is one minor quible in that xattr_delete() should be in libattr. But I don't want the coreutils update to depend on a newer libattr. Upstream will rightfully want that though. I'm also not 100% that cp shouldn't also call xattr_delete(), but it's defenadable and fits how ACLs currently work in coreutils and setfattr.
Created attachment 134320 [details] Generic xattr support for cp and mv
Created attachment 135027 [details] Suggestions from Jim This is the fixes that Jim pointed out (note untested, but not much code changed). Also added --preserve=acls (hopefully changing the right bits) and documentation for xattrs, ACLs and SELinux. I haven't even compiled this yet, but it has to be better than the first patch, right?:). I'll test and look at adding test cases, submit upstream etc. and let you know.
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Removing NEEDINFO, keeping ASSIGNED against rawhide.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I found this already solved in Gentoo Linux - look at patch patch/004_all_coreutils-acl-xattr.patch from http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/dist/coreutils-6.12-patches-1.0.tar.lzma. Now I am trying to contact original author first.
Fixed in rawhide. Note that cp -a still doesn't copy user/root xattrs. The appropriate cp option is --preserve=xattr. mv always preserves xattrs, install never preserves xattrs.