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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 10:13:56 +0200
From: Daniel Cegiełka <daniel.cegielka@...il.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: attr and acl

2014-06-29 9:47 GMT+02:00 Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 03:57:53PM +0400, (GalaxyMaster) wrote:
>> I have two packages I'd love to introduce to Owl: attr and acl (to
>> support extended attributes and filesystem ACLs).  My updated coreutils
>> package also supports these.  It would be _very_ convenient to have
>> these two included into Owl.  Their size is minimal each < 100KB .
>
> I don't mind, but I'd like to know how this corresponds to other
> distros.  Does RHEL have these packages?

Both acl and attr are installed in the base RHEL installation.

> Why are they in your "updated coreutils" rather than separate?  How do
> other distros handle this - add them to coreutils or package separately?

to coreutils (gentoo uses options with USE flags.). Acl requires
support in cp, mv, sed etc.

Daniel

>
> It's these two packages, right? -
>
> http://www.bestbits.at/acl/
>
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/attr
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/acl
>
> Alexander

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