tarfilter: expand description text

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Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues 2021-08-23 10:33:31 +02:00
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@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ def main():
description="""\
Filters a tarball on standard input by the same rules as the dpkg --path-exclude
and --path-include options and writes resulting tarball to standard output. See
dpkg(1) for information on how these two options work in detail.
dpkg(1) for information on how these two options work in detail. Since this is
meant for filtering tarballs storing a rootfs, notice that paths must be given
as /path and not as ./path even though they might be stored as such in the
tarball.
Similarly, filter out unwanted pax extended headers. This is useful in cases
where a tool only accepts certain xattr prefixes. For example tar2sqfs only