[ddp] libarchive-dev : Single library to read/write tar, cpio, pax, zip, iso9660, etc.

[daily-debian-package at enix.org]

Hello,

Today, I'm happy to present you the Debian package libarchive-dev,
which is part of the libdevel section, and maintained by John Goerzen
<jgoerzen at complete.org>. 

This package contains : Single library to read/write tar, cpio, pax,
zip, iso9660, etc..

The libarchive library provides a flexible interface for reading and
writing streaming archive files such as tar and cpio.  The library is
inherently stream-oriented; readers serially iterate through the archive,
writers serially add things to the archive.  In particular, note that
there is no built-in support for random access nor for in-place
modification.

libarchive can read at least five tar formats, four cpio formats,
ISO9660 CD/DVD images (including RockRidge extensions), and ZIP
files.

libarchive can write two tar formats (ustar and pax), one cpio format
(odc/POSIX), and two types of shar files (with and without uuencoding).

The bsdtar Debian package, which is the default tar(1) on FreeBSD,
is built using libarchive.

There is also a manpage, tar(5), in libarchive2 that provides
an excellent description of the various tar file formats.


Package homepage     :
 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libdevel/libarchive-dev

Package bug homepage :
 http://bugs.debian.org/libarchive-dev

Package QA homepage  :
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/libarchive-dev

Have fun with Debian packages !

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