Re: user guide drafts: Archiving Files with tar/star

[Murray McAllister <mmcallis@redhat.com>]

Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> Murray McAllister wrote:

> The only point I often bring up is if you have a tar file without
> extended attributes, or want the extended attributes to match the policy
> of the destination machine, you should run it through restorecon.
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> tar xvf file.tgz | restorecon -f -
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> Would reset the file context on disk after the extraction.
Does this only apply to the tar file itself, not the files in it? On 
rawhide the extracted files (that have extended attributes) inherit the 
type of the directory they are being extracted in.

Thanks.

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