do not emit a tarball with xattrs for squashfs and ext2 output because tar2sqfs and genext2fs do not support extended attributes

This commit is contained in:
Johannes 'josch' Schauer 2020-05-02 23:55:05 +02:00
parent da88c56b9f
commit be2bb0bb7e
Signed by untrusted user: josch
GPG key ID: F2CBA5C78FBD83E1

View file

@ -4061,12 +4061,19 @@ sub main() {
'--clamp-mtime',
'--numeric-owner',
'--one-file-system',
'--xattrs',
'--format=pax',
'--pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f,delete=atime,delete=ctime',
'-c',
'--exclude=./dev'
);
# tar2sqfs and genext2fs do not support extended attributes
if ($format eq "squashfs") {
warning "tar2sqfs does not support extended attributes";
} elsif ($format eq "ext2") {
warning "genext2fs does not support extended attributes";
} else {
push @taropts, '--xattrs';
}
# disable signals so that we can fork and change behaviour of the signal
# handler in the parent and child without getting interrupted
@ -5314,7 +5321,8 @@ C<tar2sqfs> utility, which will create an xz compressed squashfs image with a
blocksize of 1048576 bytes in I<TARGET>. The special I<TARGET> C<-> does not
work with this format because C<tar2sqfs> can only write to a regular file. If
you need your squashfs image be named C<->, then just explicitly pass the
relative path to it like F<./->.
relative path to it like F<./->. Since C<tar2sqfs> does not support extended
attributes, the resulting image will not contain them.
=item B<ext2>
@ -5326,7 +5334,8 @@ with this format because C<genext2fs> can only write to a regular file. If you
need your ext2 image be named C<->, then just explicitly pass the relative path
to it like F<./->. To convert the result to an ext3 image, use C<tune2fs -O
has_journal TARGET> and to convert it to ext4, use C<tune2fs -O
extents,uninit_bg,dir_index,has_journal TARGET>
extents,uninit_bg,dir_index,has_journal TARGET>. Since C<genext2fs> does not
support extended attributes, the resulting image will not contain them.
=back