The original files' contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner,
and group are preserved in the archive, and can be restored on
extraction.
+
The stored filename is limited to 15 characters. (for more information
see long filename support).
ar has 60 bytes of overheads for every stored file.
This implementation of ar can extract archives, it cannot create or
modify them.
- On an x86 system, the ar applet adds about XXX bytes.
+ On an x86 system, the ar applet adds about 1K.
Unless you have a specific application which requires ar, you should
probably say N here.
bool "bunzip2"
default n
help
- bunzip2 is an compression utility using the Burrows-Wheeler block
+ bunzip2 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.
The BusyBox bunzip2 applet is limited to de-compression only.
- On an x86 system, this applet adds about XXX bytes.
+ On an x86 system, this applet adds about 11K.
Unless you have a specific application which requires bunzip2, you
should probably say N here.
default n
depends on CONFIG_DPKG_DEB
help
- This reduced dpkg-deb to the equivalent of "ar -p <deb> data.tar.gz | tar -zx".
+ This reduces dpkg-deb to the equivalent of "ar -p <deb> data.tar.gz | tar -zx".
However it saves space as none of the extra dpkg-deb, ar or tar options are
needed, they are linked to internally.
help
This is the default compression method inside the debian ar file.
- If you want compatability with standard .deb's you should say yes here.
+ If you want compatibility with standard .deb's you should say yes here.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEB_TAR_BZ2
bool " bzip2 debian packages"
This allows dpkg and dpkg-deb to extract deb's that are compressed internally
with bzip2 instead of gzip.
- You only want this is your are creating your own custom debian packages that
+ You only want this if you are creating your own custom debian packages that
use an internal control.tar.bz2 or data.tar.bz2.
config CONFIG_GUNZIP
bool "gunzip"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ gunzip is used to decompress archives created by gzip.
+ You can use the `-t' option to test the integrity of
+ an archive, without decompressing it.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_GUNZIP_UNCOMPRESS
bool " Uncompress support"
default n
depends on CONFIG_GUNZIP
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Enable if you want gunzip to have the ability to decompress
+ archives created by the program compress (not much
+ used anymore).
config CONFIG_GZIP
bool "gzip"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ gzip is used to compress files.
+ It's probably the most widely used UNIX compression program.
config CONFIG_RPM2CPIO
bool "rpm2cpio"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Converts an RPM file into a CPIO archive.
+
+config CONFIG_RPM
+ bool "rpm"
+ default n
+ help
+ Mini RPM applet - queries and extracts
config CONFIG_TAR
bool "tar"
default n
help
- tar has at least 512 bytes of overheads for every stored file.
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ tar is an archiving program. It's commonly used with gzip to
+ create compressed archives. It's probably the most widely used
+ UNIX archive program.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE
bool " Enable archive creation"
default y
depends on CONFIG_TAR
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ If you enable this option you'll be able to create
+ tar archives using the `-c' option.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_BZIP2
bool " Enable -j option to handle .tar.bz2 files"
default n
depends on CONFIG_TAR
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ If you enable this option you'll be able to extract
+ archives compressed with bzip2.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_EXCLUDE
bool " Enable -X and --exclude options (exclude files)"
default n
depends on CONFIG_TAR
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ If you enable this option you'll be able to specify
+ a list of files to exclude from an archive.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP
bool " Enable -z option"
default y
depends on CONFIG_TAR
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ If you enable this option tar will be able to call gzip,
+ when creating or extracting tar gziped archives.
-config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLD_FORMAT
+config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY
bool " Enable support for old tar header format"
- default n
+ default N
depends on CONFIG_TAR
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ This option is required to unpack archives created in
+ the old GNU format; help to kill this old format by
+ repacking your ancient archives with the new format.
-config CONFIG_FEATURE_GNUTAR_LONG_FILENAME
- bool " Enable support for GNU long filenames"
+config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS
+ bool " Enable support for some GNU tar extensions"
default y
depends on CONFIG_TAR
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
-
-config CONFIG_FEATURE_UNARCHIVE_TAPE
- bool " Enable tape drive support"
- default n
- depends on CONFIG_TAR || CONFIG_CPIO
- help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ With this option busybox supports GNU long filenames and
+ linknames.
config CONFIG_UNCOMPRESS
bool "uncompress"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ uncompress is used to decompress archives created by compress.
+ Not much used anymore, replaced by gzip/gunzip.
config CONFIG_UNZIP
bool "unzip"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ unzip will list or extract files from a ZIP archive,
+ commonly found on DOS/WIN systems. The default behavior
+ (with no options) is to extract the archive into the
+ current directory. Use the `-d' option to extract to a
+ directory of your choice.
+
+comment "Common options for cpio and tar"
+ depends on CONFIG_CPIO || CONFIG_TAR
+
+config CONFIG_FEATURE_UNARCHIVE_TAPE
+ bool " Enable tape drive support"
+ default n
+ depends on CONFIG_CPIO || CONFIG_TAR
+ help
+ I don't think this is needed anymore.
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