Bug 847881 – RFE: allow extra arguments (like --exclude) to tar-out

Bug 847881 - RFE: allow extra arguments (like --exclude) to tar-out

Summary:	RFE: allow extra arguments (like --exclude) to tar-out

Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM

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Product:	Virtualization Tools
Classification:	Community
Component:	libguestfs (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Unspecified Linux

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Assigned To:	Richard W.M. Jones
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Reported:	2012-08-13 17:56 EDT by Andy Lutomirski
Modified:	2012-08-14 12:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2012-08-14 12:56:51 EDT
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Description Andy Lutomirski 2012-08-13 17:56:19 EDT

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 17:59:55 EDT

See note here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847880#c1

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-08-14 10:52:06 EDT

Patches posted:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2012-August/msg00054.html

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-08-14 12:56:51 EDT

I pushed a less broken version of this patch upstream
in libguestfs 1.19.30.

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