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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), that provides an excellent description of the various tar file formats.
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| Architecture | Version | Package Size | Installed Size | Files |
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| alpha | 2.6.2-1 | 130.1 kB | 364 kB | [list of files] |
| amd64 | 2.6.2-1 | 118.6 kB | 316 kB | [list of files] |
| armel | 2.6.2-1 | 112.2 kB | 288 kB | [list of files] |
| avr32 (unofficial port) | 2.6.2-1 | 117.4 kB | 284 kB | [list of files] |
| hppa | 2.6.2-1 | 132.9 kB | 344 kB | [list of files] |
| i386 | 2.6.2-1 | 118.9 kB | 256 kB | [list of files] |
| ia64 | 2.6.2-1 | 161.0 kB | 492 kB | [list of files] |
| kfreebsd-amd64 | 2.6.2-1 | 118.3 kB | 264 kB | [list of files] |
| kfreebsd-i386 | 2.6.2-1+b1 | 117.9 kB | 252 kB | [list of files] |
| m68k (unofficial port) | 2.6.2-1 | 112.1 kB | 296 kB | [list of files] |
| mips | 2.6.2-1 | 117.9 kB | 348 kB | [list of files] |
| mipsel | 2.6.2-1 | 117.7 kB | 348 kB | [list of files] |
| powerpc | 2.6.2-1 | 128.7 kB | 352 kB | [list of files] |
| s390 | 2.6.2-1 | 127.9 kB | 328 kB | [list of files] |
| sparc | 2.6.2-1 | 115.8 kB | 308 kB | [list of files] |