Preserving Context with tar

[W. Scott wilburn]

Sorry to be asking such a simple question. Is it possible to preserve 
file contexts using tar? I would have thought -p would do this, but 
it appears no, atleast on RHEL4 and FC4.

The reason to do this is a use tar to install modified config files on 
new machines. Having to relabel after doing this is somewhat slow. 
Perhaps there is a better solution?

Thanks,
Scott Wilburn