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Re: [Bug-tar] tar and preserving acl with --acls
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] tar and preserving acl with --acls |
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Wed, 22 May 2013 08:59:13 +0200 |
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> And I cannot get what should be default tar acl behaviour?
Thanks for your comment, I missed that the documentation part was not
pushed upstream:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-08/txt_YmFUlb7zE.txt
> Option --acls used to be default
ACLs are new in _upstream_ GNU tar.
> and now I can see that tar does not preserve acl unless option --acls is
> used. What was the reason not to make it like a default?
Due to make the ACL proposal as non-invasive as possible (as it was one of
the initial requirements for such contribution). Good question would be
whether the default may be changed upstream?
As a workaround, users are still able to use TAR_OPTIONS environmental
variable turning this on by default.
Pavel