From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>,
openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] oe.path: preserve xattr in copytree() and copyhardlinktree()
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:19:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1472559543.29583.21.camel@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <921e5cf0-9980-1133-ec0b-bc874ae9c4fb@windriver.com>
On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 10:48 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> The reason why cpio was originally used had to do with filenames that
> had spaces
> or other special characters in them. (this is why the -print0 was
> used)
>
> I don't object to the change, but we need to make sure that that will
> still work
> properly.
>
> (Also I thought CPIO -could- do xattrs in the current versions...)
FWIW cpio itself doesn't appear to support xattrs, nor is it likely to
any time soon. It seems people had to use bsdcpio to get that
support...
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-30 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-26 15:43 [PATCH 0/2] Preserve extended attributes in sstate objects Joshua Lock
2016-08-26 15:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] buildtools-tarball: add tar Joshua Lock
2016-08-30 12:24 ` Paul Eggleton
2016-08-26 15:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] oe.path: preserve xattr in copytree() and copyhardlinktree() Joshua Lock
2016-08-26 15:48 ` Mark Hatle
2016-08-30 12:00 ` Joshua Lock
2016-08-30 12:19 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2016-09-06 15:22 ` Nicolas Dechesne
2016-09-06 15:26 ` Richard Purdie
2016-09-06 15:34 ` Nicolas Dechesne
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