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Agreed. I usually hate on Apple, and its terribly ancient utilities and gratuitous incompatibility with modern Linux utilities, motivated by hatred of the GPL l
by dlenski 5mo ago
Agreed. I usually hate on Apple, and its terribly ancient utilities and gratuitous incompatibility with modern Linux utilities, motivated by hatred of the GPL license.
But in this case, I think what it's doing is… basically fine? "Tar should faithfully reproduce the semantics of the source filesystem" is a perfectly reasonable starting point.
Ideally there would be a documented way to turn off the Apple-specific metadata with Apple's own tar, though.
- saagarjha 5mo agoFrom tar(1): --no-mac-metadata (x mode only) Mac OS X specific. Do not archive or extract ACLs and extended file attributes using copyfile(3) in AppleDouble format. This is the reverse of --mac-metadata. and the default behavior if tar is run as non-root in x mode.