We are working on the Fedora SELinux FAQ

[Moray Henderson]

John Reiser wrote:
>Q: Is 'tar' the only Fedora-packaged file manipulator that is SELinux
>    aware?  All of the following apps ignore file contexts, and thus
>    do not "interoperate" with SELinux (do not preserve context
labels):
>       cp
>       cp -a
>       cpio
>       rsync  # even with local pathnames only
>       zip/unzip, gzip, bzip2, 7zip, lzma, xz
>       sccs, rcs, cvs, svn, mercurial (hg), git, perforce
>       any user-level network protocol: file://, ftp://, http://
>          (therefore: rsync, curl, wget, ftp, sftp, scp, ...)

'star' is distributed with RHEL (although maybe not installed by
default), and supported context labels before 'tar' did.  


Moray.
"To err is human.  To purr, feline"