libarchive plugin for Tux Commander Version: 0.0.4 Release date: 2008-May-18 Copyright (C) 2008 Tomas Bzatek http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net This plugin uses libarchive library v2.4.17 Copyright (c) 2003-2007 Tim Kientzle http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ See libarchive-2.4.17/COPYING for licensing conditions This is the libarchive archiving VFS (Virtual File System) plugin for Tux Commander file manager. Uses libarchive library, providing access and routines for manipulation with the archives. By default, Tux Commander binary package comes with statically linked libarchive plugin, not requiring any libraries other than zlib and bzip2, which are pretty standard in modern linux distributions. Feature highlights: * read-only support for TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, ISO9660, CPIO, A (ar), DEB archives * full support for Unix file and directory permissions * large files (> 4GB) support * correctly handles sparse files To be implemented: * archive consistency testing (needs new VFS API) * write support (probably creating new archives only) Requirements: - system zlib and bzip2 libraries Static compilation (default): - requires uudecode utility (sharutils package) - "make static" - libz and libbz2 are still linked dynamically - libarchive sources are included in plugin source tree, no need for any external files Shared library compilation: - requires libarchive library installed on your system - "make shared" Compilation has been tested with gcc compiler version 4.2.3 and 4.3.0