http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585219 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585219#c2 Michal Seben <mseben@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #2 from Michal Seben <mseben@novell.com> 2010-03-04 19:00:42 UTC --- (In reply to comment #0)

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The tar version in openSUSE and SLED/S does not support --acls. This is strange because it appears to be the most recent version of GNU tar which I believe supported acls back as far as 1.14 though I'm not really sure. as Marcus written gnu tar 1.22 doesn't support acl, there is also bug report according this in uptream: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg02273.html

Among other things, I suspect this would break the Yast based backup and restore tools since all ACL would be lost during a restore.

"If you use ACLs (access control lists) for file access and want to back them up, select the subarchive type star" see: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Modules/System_Backup

Also, the SLE training that Novell offers also has an entire section dedicated to advanced access control lists so it would seem important to support them with tar.

I apologize but I think this reason is not sufficient

The solution does not seem to be as simple as a version upgrade since SUSE seems to have the most recent version of GNU tar, yet acl support is not included even though GNU tar seems to have had this for quite some time, at least according to this man page:

http://linux.die.net/man/1/tar

Reproducible: Always

i am closing this as wontfix, please reopen this feature with stronger arguments and use please features.opensuse.org thanks -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.