[Libguestfs] [PATCH] tar-in: Add workaround because tar doesn't restore capabilities (RHBZ#1384241).

[Pino Toscano]

On Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:47:43 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Current GNU tar does not restore all extended attributes.  In
> particular only user.* capabilities are restored (although all
> are saved in the tarball).
> 
> To restore capabilities, SELinux security attributes, and other things
> we need to use --xattrs-include=*
> 
> For further information on the tar bug, see:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771927
> ---

Pity tar cannot handle properly this kind of metadata...

LGTM.

Thanks,
-- 
Pino Toscano
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