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| author | Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> | 2010-02-05 11:06:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com> | 2010-02-05 11:06:31 +0100 |
| commit | baea7d877d3cf69679a39e8512a120658a478073 (patch) | |
| tree | 37c9a98cb3d3a322f3f91c8ca656ccd6bd2eaebe /libarchive/libarchive-2.7.1/PROJECTS | |
| parent | e42a4ff3031aa1c1aaf27aa34d9395fec185924b (diff) | |
| download | tuxcmd-modules-baea7d877d3cf69679a39e8512a120658a478073.tar.xz | |
Rebase libarchive to 2.8.0
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diff --git a/libarchive/libarchive-2.7.1/PROJECTS b/libarchive/libarchive-2.7.1/PROJECTS deleted file mode 100644 index fdb9be4..0000000 --- a/libarchive/libarchive-2.7.1/PROJECTS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +0,0 @@ -The following is a list of things I would like to see -done with libarchive. It's sorted roughly in priority; -more feasible and more often-requested items are higher -on the list. If you think you have time to work on any -of these, please let me know. - -* More compression options: Recent improvements to the - read bidding system and external program support should - make it very simple to add support for lzo, lzf, and - many other command-line decompression programs. - I've even written up a Wiki page describing how to - do this. - -* cpio front-end. The basic bsdcpio front-end is now - working. I'm looking for feedback about what additional - features are necessary. - -* pax front-end. Once cpio is a little more stable, I plan - to fork it as the basis of a pax front-end. The only really - tricky part will be implementing the header-editing features - from POSIX 2001 'pax', which will require some changes to - the libarchive API. - -* libarchive on Windows. libarchive mostly builds cleanly - on Windows and Visual Studio. Making this really clean - requires reworking the public API to not use dev/ino; I - think I know how to do this but could use advice from - someone knowledgable about Windows file-management APIs. - -* Linux large-file/small-file dance. libarchive always - builds with 64-bit off_t and stat structures; client programs - don't always do this. Supporting client programs built - with 32-bit off_t requires a little trickery. I know how - to do this but haven't had time to work through it. - -* bsdtar on Windows. After libarchive is working on Windows, - this should be much simpler. At worst, you can just disable - features. - -* Writing tar sparse entries. The GNU "1.0" sparse format - sucks a lot less than the old GNU sparse format, so I'm finally - dropping my objections to sparse file writing. This requires - extending archive_entry to support a block list, and will - require extensive changes to bsdtar to generate block lists. - The sparse read code will also need to put block lists into - the entry so that archive-to-archive copies preserve sparseness. - -* ISO9660 writing. Writing ISO9660 requires two passes, and - libarchive is a single-pass API. For ISO9660, you can hide - that behind a temp file, though. Collect metadata in memory, - append file bodies (properly padded to 2k sector boundaries) - to a temp file, then format the directory section and copy - the file data through at format close. - -* archive_read_disk: Currently, libarchive can generate a stream - of entries from an archive file and can feed entries to an - archive file or a directory. The missing corner is pulling - entries from a directory. With that, libarchive can provide - efficient bulk copy services for dir-to-dir, dir-to-archive, - archive-to-dir, and archive-to-archive. Right now, the - read-from-disk capabilities are handled in the client. - -* ISO9660 Level 3. ISO9660 Level 3 supports files over 4GB. - -* --split=<limit> option to bsdtar. This would watch the total output - size and begin a new archive file whenever <next file size> + - <total archive size> exceeded <limit>. Not as robust as - GNU tar's ability to split an entry across archives, but still - useful in many situations. - -* Filename matching extensions: ^ to anchor a pattern to the - beginning of the file, [!...] negated character classes, etc. |
