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authormm <mm@FreeBSD.org>2011-07-17 21:27:38 +0000
committermm <mm@FreeBSD.org>2011-07-17 21:27:38 +0000
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- Update libarchive to 2.8.4
- Add support for extracting xar and rpm archives - Add libarchive_fe subdir (common code for tar and cpio) Approved by: kientzle MFC after: 2 weeks
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Currently, the library automatically detects and reads the following:
* gzip compression
* bzip2 compression
* compress/LZW compression
+ * lzma and xz compression
* GNU tar format (including GNU long filenames, long link names, and
sparse files)
* Solaris 9 extended tar format (including ACLs)
@@ -30,18 +31,26 @@ Currently, the library automatically detects and reads the following:
* POSIX octet-oriented cpio
* SVR4 ASCII cpio
* Binary cpio (big-endian or little-endian)
- * ISO9660 CD-ROM images (with optional Rockridge extensions)
+ * ISO9660 CD-ROM images (with optional Rockridge or Joliet extensions)
* ZIP archives (with uncompressed or "deflate" compressed entries)
+ * GNU and BSD 'ar' archives
+ * 'mtree' format
The library can write:
* gzip compression
* bzip2 compression
+ * compress/LZW compression
+ * lzma and xz compression
* POSIX ustar
* POSIX pax interchange format
* "restricted" pax format, which will create ustar archives except for
entries that require pax extensions (for long filenames, ACLs, etc).
* POSIX octet-oriented cpio
+ * SVR4 "newc" cpio
* shar archives
+ * ZIP archives (with uncompressed or "deflate" compressed entries)
+ * GNU and BSD 'ar' archives
+ * 'mtree' format
Notes:
* This is a heavily stream-oriented system. There is no direct
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