[arch-general] An old, tiresome discussion: cdrtools vs cdrkit

[Joerg Schilling]

Pierre Schmitz <pierre at 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