[PATCH 6/6] livemedia-creator: Add support for making tarfiles
Brian C. Lane
bcl at redhat.com
Mon Apr 7 22:01:22 UTC 2014
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:16:11PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 15:04:08 -0700
> "Brian C. Lane" <bcl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > This adds the --make-tar option which will produce a xz compressed tar
> > of the root filesystem. This works with either virt-install or no-virt
> > modes. Use --image-name to set the output filename.
>
> are we sure that we are preserving all the permissions correctly? there
> is a number of packages that switched from suid to filesystem
> capabilities. we ended up stopping to produce arm root filesystem
> tarballs as some things were broken, for instance ping could only be
> run as root.
tar is running with "--selinux", "--acls", "--xattrs", which should
take care of all the possibilities.
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