src-test2/lib/libarchive/libarchive.3, branch release/5.4.0_cvs

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2005-05-07T17:51:10Z

'RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE'. This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 5.4-RELEASE image.

MFC: Sync libarchive with -CURRENT.

2005-02-25T05:10:23Z

This brings a number of new features (iso9660 and ZIP support), some important bug fixes and a number of documentation enhancements. All in time for 5.4. ;-)

Fixed cross-references in SEE ALSO.

2004-07-04T21:15:37Z

Emininated double space and hard sentence breaks.

Document support for reading .Z compressed archives.

2004-05-27T04:21:52Z

Correct a few other minor nits.

Many fixes:

2004-03-19T22:37:06Z

* Disabled shared-library building, as some API breakage is still likely. (I didn't realize it was turned on by default.) If you have an existing /usr/lib/libarchive.so.2, I recommend deleting it. * Pax interchange format now correctly stores and reads UTF8 for extended attributes. In particular, pax format can portably handle arbitrarily long pathnames containing arbitrary characters. * Library compiles cleanly at -O2, -O3, and WARNS=6 on all FreeBSD-CURRENT platforms. * Minor portability improvements inspired by Juergen Lock and Greg Lewis. (Less reliance on stdint.h, isolating of various portability-challenged constructs.) * archive_entry transparently converts multi-byte <-> wide character strings, allowing clients and format handlers to deal with either one, as appropriate. * Support for reading 'L' and 'K' entries in standard tar archives for star compatibility. * Recognize (but don't yet handle) ACL entries from Solaris tar. * Pushed format-specific data for format readers down into format-specific storage and out of library-global storage. This should make it easier to maintain individual formats without mucking with the core library management. * Documentation updates to track the above changes. * Updates to tar.5 to correct a few mistakes and add some additional information about GNU tar and Solaris tar formats. Notes: * The basic 'tar' reader is getting more general; there's not much point in keeping the 'gnutar' reader separate. Merging the two would lose a bunch of duplicate code. * The libc ACL support is looking increasingly inadequate for my needs here. I might need to assemble some fairly significant code for parsing and building ACLs.

Initial import of libarchive.

2004-02-09T23:22:54Z

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.