Package libarchive-2.4.0-1

Libarchive is a stream-oriented library for variety of archives. It focuses on tar format and its variants primarily, but can also read and/or write other families of archive formats. Following formats are supported ('r' for reading and 'w' for writing). On read, compression and format are always detected automatically. [rw] gzip compression [rw] bzip2 compression [r ] compress/LZW compression [r ] GNU tar format (including GNU long filenames, long link names, and sparse files) [r ] Solaris 9 extended tar format (including ACLs) [r ] Old V7 tar archives [rw] POSIX 1003.1-1988 ustar [rw] POSIX 1003.1-2001 pax interchange format (indeed extended ustar) [ w] "restricted" pax format, which will create ustar archives except for entries that require pax extensions (for long filenames, ACLs, etc). [rw] POSIX octet-oriented cpio ("odc") [rw] SVR4 ASCII cpio ("newc") [r ] Binary cpio (big-endian or little-endian) [r ] ISO9660 CD-ROM images (with optional Rockridge extensions) [r ] ZIP archives (with uncompressed or "deflate" compressed entries) [ w] shar archives [rw] GNU and BSD 'ar' archives [r ] 'mtree' format

Guide to Documentation installed by this system: * libarchive.3 gives an overview of the library as a whole * archive_read.3, archive_write.3, and archive_write_disk.3 provide detailed calling sequences for the read and write APIs * archive_entry.3 details the "struct archive_entry" utility class * libarchive-formats.5 documents the file formats supported by the library * tar.5 provides some detailed information about a variety of different "tar" formats.