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.
-
+ 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.
cpio has 110 bytes of overheads for every stored file.
This implementation of cpio can extract cpio archives created in the
- "newc" or "crc" format, it cannot create or modify them.
+ "newc" or "crc" format, it cannot create or modify them.
Unless you have a specific application which requires cpio, you should
probably say N here.
default n
help
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.
default n
help
dpkg-deb packs, unpacks and provides information about Debian archives.
-
+
This implementation of dpkg-deb cannot pack archives.
-
+
Unless you have a specific application which requires dpkg-deb, you should
probably say N here.
depends on CONFIG_DPKG_DEB
help
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
+ However it saves space as none of the extra dpkg-deb, ar or tar options are
needed, they are linked to internally.
config CONFIG_GUNZIP
default y
depends on CONFIG_TAR
help
- With this option busybox supports GNU long filenames and
+ With this option busybox supports GNU long filenames and
linknames.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS
depends on CONFIG_DPKG || CONFIG_DPKG_DEB
help
This is the default compression method inside the debian ar file.
-
+
If you want compatibility with standard .deb's you should say yes here.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_DEB_TAR_BZ2
help
This allows dpkg and dpkg-deb to extract deb's that are compressed internally
with bzip2 instead of gzip.
-
+
You only want this if you are creating your own custom debian packages that
use an internal control.tar.bz2 or data.tar.bz2.