Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Finally some interesting discussion came out of this. I am not an expert on linux capability support, but Thomas has posted two blog entries about this in Arch: http://archlinux.me/brain0/2009/07/28/using-posix-capabilities-in-linux- part-one/ and http://archlinux.me/brain0/2010/01/05/using-posix-capabilities- in-linux-part-two/
I'll have a loot at it.
In general this should work fine. The only problem is that bsdtar did not support storing those information (don't know if future versions support this) so one has to use install scripts to adjust the permissions after install.
I am not sure whether this is the best solution. I recommend to use star as star is the oldest free tar implementation and as it supports ACLs since 10 years already. Adding more meta data is relatively simple. e~A