Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : bsdtar Version : 1.02.034 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ * License : BSD Description : tar(1) from FreeBSD, with read support for tar/zip/ISO9660/cpio using libarchive The bsdtar program has a number of advantages over previous tar implementations: . * Library. Since the core functionality is in a library, it can be used by other tools, such as pkg_add. . * Automatic format detection. Libarchive automatically detects the compression (none/gzip/bzip2) and format (old tar, ustar, gnutar, pax, cpio, iso9660, zip) when reading archives. It does this for any data source. . * Pax Interchange Format Support. This is a POSIX/SUSv3 extension to the old "ustar" tar format that adds arbitrary extended attributes to each entry. Does everything that GNU tar format does, only better. . * Handles file flags, ACLs, arbitrary pathnames, etc. Pax interchange format supports key/value attributes using an easily-extensible technique. Arbitrary pathnames, group names, user names, file sizes are part of the POSIX standard; libarchive extends this with support for file flags, ACLs, and arbitrary device numbers. . * GNU tar support. Libarchive reads most GNU tar archives. If there is demand, this can be improved further. . * BSD license. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
