Re: xattr records not actually working? (Was: creating Hurd chroots on Linux using DPKG_ROOT chrootless mode)

[Samuel Thibault]

Samuel Thibault, le sam. 24 août 2024 19:25:54 +0200, a ecrit:
> Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, le sam. 24 août 2024 18:29:52 +0200, a 
> ecrit:
> > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2024-07-19 01:35:45)
> > > Putting a more eye-catching title :)
> > 
> > Thank you, Samuel!
> > 
> > I am still unable to see extended attributes in the translators when 
> > checking
> > this call on Linux:
> > 
> > sudo getfattr --dump --match=- /mnt/hurd/*
> > 
> > Do others observe the same?
> 
> Indeed. Apparently the translators don't get updated on upgrade, so
> you'd have to force it:
> 
> /usr/lib/hurd/setup-translators -k

As discussed on irc: one needs to reboot with an upgraded hurd package
before using setup-translators to update the entries.

And on Linux, one needs to use the ext4fs module, not ext2fs (which
doesn't know about gnu.translators).

Samuel