probably say N here.
config FEATURE_AR_LONG_FILENAMES
- bool "Enable support for long filenames (not need for debs)"
+ bool "Support for long filenames (not need for debs)"
default n
depends on AR
help
conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the
performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
- The BusyBox bunzip2 applet is limited to de-compression only.
- On an x86 system, this applet adds about 11K.
-
Unless you have a specific application which requires bunzip2, you
should probably say N here.
+config BZIP2
+ bool "bzip2"
+ default n
+ help
+ bzip2 is a compression utility using the Burrows-Wheeler block
+ sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression
+ is generally considerably better than that achieved by more
+ conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the
+ performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
+
+ Unless you have a specific application which requires bzip2, you
+ should probably say N here.
+
config CPIO
bool "cpio"
default n
Unless you have a specific application which requires cpio, you should
probably say N here.
+config FEATURE_CPIO_O
+ bool "Support for archive creation"
+ default n
+ depends on CPIO
+ help
+ This implementation of cpio can create cpio archives in the "newc"
+ format only.
+
config DPKG
bool "dpkg"
default n
help
- dpkg is a medium-level tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages.
+ dpkg is a medium-level tool to install, build, remove and manage
+ Debian packages.
- This implementation of dpkg has a number of limitations, you should use the
- official dpkg if possible.
+ This implementation of dpkg has a number of limitations,
+ you should use the official dpkg if possible.
config DPKG_DEB
bool "dpkg_deb"
This implementation of dpkg-deb cannot pack archives.
- Unless you have a specific application which requires dpkg-deb, you should
- probably say N here.
+ Unless you have a specific application which requires dpkg-deb,
+ say N here.
config FEATURE_DPKG_DEB_EXTRACT_ONLY
- bool "extract only (-x)"
+ bool "Extract only (-x)"
default n
depends on DPKG_DEB
help
bool "rpm"
default n
help
- Mini RPM applet - queries and extracts
+ Mini RPM applet - queries and extracts RPM packages.
+
+config FEATURE_RPM_BZ2
+ bool "Enable handling of rpms with bzip2-compressed data inside"
+ default n
+ depends on RPM
+ help
+ Enable handling of rpms with bzip2-compressed data inside.
config TAR
bool "tar"
If you enable this option you'll be able to create
tar archives using the `-c' option.
+config FEATURE_TAR_GZIP
+ bool "Enable -z option"
+ default y
+ depends on TAR
+ help
+ If you enable this option tar will be able to call gzip,
+ when creating or extracting tar gziped archives.
+
config FEATURE_TAR_BZIP2
bool "Enable -j option to handle .tar.bz2 files"
default n
If you enable this option you'll be able to extract
archives compressed with lzma.
-config FEATURE_TAR_FROM
- bool "Enable -X (exclude from) and -T (include from) options)"
+config FEATURE_TAR_COMPRESS
+ bool "Enable -Z option"
default n
depends on TAR
help
- If you enable this option you'll be able to specify
- a list of files to include or exclude from an archive.
+ If you enable this option tar will be able to call uncompress,
+ when extracting .tar.Z archives.
-config FEATURE_TAR_GZIP
- bool "Enable -z option"
- default y
- depends on TAR
+config FEATURE_TAR_AUTODETECT
+ bool "Let tar autodetect gz/bz2 compresses tarballs"
+ default n
+ depends on FEATURE_TAR_GZIP || FEATURE_TAR_BZIP2
help
- If you enable this option tar will be able to call gzip,
- when creating or extracting tar gziped archives.
+ With this option tar can automatically detect gzip/bzip2 compressed
+ tarballs. Currently it works only on seekable streams.
-config FEATURE_TAR_COMPRESS
- bool "Enable -Z option"
+config FEATURE_TAR_FROM
+ bool "Enable -X (exclude from) and -T (include from) options)"
default n
depends on TAR
help
- If you enable this option tar will be able to call uncompress,
- when extracting .tar.Z archives.
+ If you enable this option you'll be able to specify
+ a list of files to include or exclude from an archive.
config FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
- bool "Enable support for old tar header format"
+ bool "Support for old tar header format"
default N
depends on TAR
help
the old GNU format; help to kill this old format by
repacking your ancient archives with the new format.
+config FEATURE_TAR_OLDSUN_COMPATIBILITY
+ bool "Enable untarring of tarballs with checksums produced by buggy Sun tar"
+ default N
+ depends on TAR
+ help
+ This option is required to unpack archives created by some old
+ version of Sun's tar (it was calculating checksum using signed arithmetic).
+ It is said to be fixed in newer Sun tar, but "old" tarballs still exist.
+
config FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS
- bool "Enable support for some GNU tar extensions"
+ bool "Support for GNU tar extensions (long filenames)"
default y
depends on TAR
help
default n
depends on TAR && GETOPT_LONG
help
- Enable use of long options, increases size by about 400 Bytes
+ Enable use of long options, increases size by about 400 Bytes
+
+config FEATURE_TAR_UNAME_GNAME
+ bool "Enable use of user and group names"
+ default n
+ depends on TAR
+ help
+ Enables use of user and group names in tar. This affects contents
+ listings (-t) and preserving permissions when unpacking (-p).
+ +200 bytes.
config UNCOMPRESS
bool "uncompress"
should probably say N here.
config FEATURE_LZMA_FAST
- bool "Optimze unlzma for speed"
+ bool "Optimize unlzma for speed"
default n
depends on UNLZMA
help
comment "Common options for cpio and tar"
depends on CPIO || TAR
-config FEATURE_UNARCHIVE_TAPE
- bool "Enable tape drive support"
- default n
- depends on CPIO || TAR
- help
- I don't think this is needed anymore.
-
comment "Common options for dpkg and dpkg_deb"
depends on DPKG || DPKG_DEB
depends on DPKG || DPKG_DEB
help
This allows dpkg and dpkg-deb to extract deb's that are compressed
- internally with lzma instead of gzip.
+ internally with lzma instead of gzip.
You only want this if you are creating your own custom debian
- packages that use an internal control.tar.lzma or data.tar.lzma.
+ packages that use an internal control.tar.lzma or data.tar.lzma.
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