cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile archive.h.in archive_read_support_format_tp.c libarchive-formats.5

Tim Kientzle kientzle at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 16 19:40:45 PST 2006


kientzle    2006-01-17 03:40:42 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    lib/libarchive       Makefile archive.h.in 
                         libarchive-formats.5 
  Added files:
    lib/libarchive       archive_read_support_format_tp.c 
  Log:
  Add support for "tp" format.  tp was the standard system
  archiver for Fourth Edition through Sixth Edition Unix; it was
  replaced by tar in Seventh Edition.  (First Edition through
  Third Edition used "tap.")
  
  Unfortunately, tp was not so very standard; there were a
  few different variants.  The code here attempts to support
  what I believe were the most common variants.
  
  tp support is not yet enabled by archive_read_support_format_all(),
  as I'm not yet entirely comfortable with the detection
  heuristics.  People interested in experimenting can
  add archive_read_support_format_tp() just after any calls
  to archive_read_support_format_all() in bsdtar to see how
  well this works.
  
  TODO: tp format is roughly similar in structure to dump/restore
     archive formats used by many systems.  It should be possible
     to generalize this code to handle many dump/restore variants.
     Format detection heuristics are going to be rough, though.
  
  Thanks to: Warren Toomey, whose very basic tp extraction programs
     and documentation made this possible.
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.43      +2 -1      src/lib/libarchive/Makefile
  1.27      +1 -0      src/lib/libarchive/archive.h.in
  1.1       +618 -0    src/lib/libarchive/archive_read_support_format_tp.c (new)
  1.10      +10 -0     src/lib/libarchive/libarchive-formats.5


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