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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 libarchive1 that provides an excellent description of the various tar file formats.
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| Architecture | Package Size | Installed Size | Files |
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| alpha | 122.5 kB | 464 kB | [list of files] |
| amd64 | 98.5 kB | 344 kB | [list of files] |
| arm | 92.5 kB | 276 kB | [list of files] |
| hppa | 110.1 kB | 332 kB | [list of files] |
| i386 | 93.4 kB | 280 kB | [list of files] |
| ia64 | 134.0 kB | 468 kB | [list of files] |
| mips | 109.3 kB | 348 kB | [list of files] |
| mipsel | 109.0 kB | 348 kB | [list of files] |
| powerpc | 102.1 kB | 308 kB | [list of files] |
| s390 | 100.8 kB | 304 kB | [list of files] |
| sparc | 93.9 kB | 292 kB | [list of files] |