[Bug 1302192] Re: capabilities not preserved on installation

[Colin Watson]

OK.  ubiquity looks reasonably straightforward thanks to new facilities
in Python 3.3.

live-installer is affected, and is trickier.  It's just using tar to
shovel files around.  Unfortunately busybox tar has no xattr support,
and I'd expect adding it to be not entirely trivial.  I'll have to think
about how to solve this.

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

** Also affects: live-installer (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: live-installer (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: live-installer (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

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Title:
  capabilities not preserved on installation

Status in “live-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “live-installer” source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Ping is not longer setuid root and I have to ping as root:

  [~]$ ping kubuntu.org
  ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted
  [~]$ sudo ping kubuntu.org
  PING kubuntu.org (91.189.94.156) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from vostok.canonical.com (91.189.94.156): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=52.2 ms
  --- kubuntu.org ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 52.231/52.231/52.231/0.000 ms
  [~]$

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