Bug#333230: ITP: bsdtar -- tar(1) from FreeBSD, with read support for tar/zip/ISO9660/cpio using libarchive
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
* Package name : bsdtar
Version : 1.02.034
Upstream Author : kientzle@freebsd.org
* 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:
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* Library. Since the core functionality is in a library, it can be
used by other tools, such as pkg_add.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* GNU tar support. Libarchive reads most GNU tar archives. If there
is demand, this can be improved further.
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* 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)
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