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Package: bsdtar (1.3.1-1) [universe]

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Maintainer:

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • John Goerzen

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

Similar packages:

tar(1) from FreeBSD, using libarchive

The bsdtar program has a number of advantages over previous tar implementations: 

 * Library. Since the core functionality is in a library, it can be
   used by other tools, such as pkg_add.


 * Automatic format detection. Libarchive automatically detects the
   compression (none/gzip/bzip2) and format (old tar, ustar, gnutar,
   pax, cpio, iso9660, zip) when reading archives. It does this for
   any data source.


 * Pax Interchange Format Support. This is a POSIX/SUSv3 extension to
   the old "ustar" tar format that adds arbitrary extended attributes
   to each entry. Does everything that GNU tar format does, only
   better.


 * Handles file flags, ACLs, arbitrary pathnames, etc. Pax interchange
   format supports key/value attributes using an easily-extensible
   technique. Arbitrary pathnames, group names, user names, file sizes
   are part of the POSIX standard; libarchive extends this with
   support for file flags, ACLs, and arbitrary device numbers.


 * GNU tar support. Libarchive reads most GNU tar archives. If there
   is demand, this can be improved further.

Other Packages Related to bsdtar

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: libarchive1 (>= 1.3.1-1)
    Single library to read/write tar, cpio, pax, zip, iso9660, etc.
  • dep: libbz2-1.0
    high-quality block-sorting file compressor library - runtime
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
    compression library - runtime
    also a virtual package provided by zlib1g-udeb

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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 85.8 kB216 kB [list of files]
i386 80.8 kB196 kB [list of files]
powerpc 92.0 kB232 kB [list of files]