[Buildroot] [PATCH v7 20/22] squashfs: Add xattr support

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Matthew Weber,

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:55:20 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:

> > Why is this needed? Can you generate those security attributes at build
> > time?
> 
> If you did you would need to modify the (host) Kernel on your build
> machine to have all of the filesystem types w/ext attributes and
> selinux enabled that you need for the rootfs creation.  Instead we
> build a inbetween QEMU that performs this in a sandbox as a post build
> step.  Then we can build on any unmodified distribution
> (Ubuntu/CentOS/Arch/etc)....

Ah, ok. I was assuming with enough fakeroot-like magic one could achieve
that without having to resort to a sandbox approach like the one you're
using. But anyway that's fine, having xattr support for squashfs on the
target is perfectly fine.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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