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* libarchive 2.0kientzle2007-03-031-6/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * libarchive_test program exercises many of the core features * Refactored old "read_extract" into new "archive_write_disk", which uses archive_write methods to put entries onto disk. In particular, you can now use archive_write_disk to create objects on disk without having an archive available. * Pushed some security checks from bsdtar down into libarchive, where they can be better optimized. * Rearchitected the logic for creating objects on disk to reduce the number of system calls. Several common cases now use a minimum number of system calls. * Virtualized some internal interfaces to provide a clearer separation of read and write handling and make it simpler to override key methods. * New "empty" format reader. * Corrected return types (this ABI breakage required the "2.0" version bump) * Many bug fixes.
* Update the format descriptions to include ISO9660 and ZIP support.kientzle2005-02-121-2/+3
| | | | Also remove some unnecessary blank lines from archive_read.3.
* Correct the names and descriptions of the man pages.kientzle2004-08-041-1/+3
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* Update the README notes to include the current list of supportedkientzle2004-07-121-49/+47
| | | | formats and remove some outdated comments about library limitations.
* Initial import of libarchive.kientzle2004-02-091-0/+90
What it is: A library for reading and writing various streaming archive formats, especially tar and cpio. Being a library, it should be easy to incorporate into pkg_* tools, sysinstall, and any other place that needs to read or write such archives. Features: * Full automatic detection of both compression and archive format. * Extensible internal architecture to make it easy to add new formats. * Support for "pax interchange format," a new POSIX-standard tar format that eliminates essentially all of the restrictions of historic formats. * BSD license Thanks to: jkh for pushing me to start this work, gordon for encouraging me to commit it, bde for answering endless style questions, and many others for feedback and encouragement. Status: Pretty good overall, though there are still a few rough edges and the library could always use more testing. Feedback eagerly solicited.
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