[Rpm-maint] ACL and File Capability Support in RPM

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Oct 29 10:16:38 UTC 2008


On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> I added the initial bits to rpm.org HEAD yesterday, essentially Andreas' 
> patch except using libcap instead of looking at file xattr info. I intend to 
> implement + add the rest fairly soon.

...and the rest is committed to rpm.org HEAD now. Might be missing some 
corner cases and odd bits but the basics work:
- spec filelist now accepts %caps(<capabilities>) and stores in headers
- install/upgrade set capabilities on filesystem
- verification is updated to match with the above

 	- Panu -


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