Merge pull request #1575 from Hello71/patch-1

libarchive.3: update archive format list
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Martin Matuška authored and GitHub committed 2021-09-30 15:41:29 +02:00
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@@ -62,30 +62,40 @@ GNU-format tar archives,
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most common cpio archive formats,
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ISO9660 CD images (including RockRidge and Joliet extensions),
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Zip archives,
7-Zip archives,
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ar archives (including GNU/SysV and BSD extensions),
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Microsoft CAB archives,
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ISO9660 CD images (including RockRidge and Joliet extensions),
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LHA archives,
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mtree file tree descriptions,
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RAR archives,
RAR and most RAR5 archives,
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XAR archives.
WARC archives,
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XAR archives,
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Zip archives.
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The library automatically detects archives compressed with
.Xr gzip 1 ,
.Xr compress 1 ,
.Xr bzip2 1 ,
.Xr xz 1 ,
.Xr grzip 1 ,
.Xr gzip 1 ,
.Xr lrzip 1 ,
.Xr lz4 1 ,
.Xr lzip 1 ,
.Xr lzop 1 ,
.Xr xz 1 ,
or
.Xr compress 1
and decompresses them transparently.
.Xr zstd 1
and decompresses them transparently. Decompression of some formats
requires external decompressor utilities.
It can similarly detect and decode archives processed with
.Xr uuencode 1
or which have an
@@ -107,19 +117,19 @@ archives,
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cpio archives,
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Zip archive,
7-Zip archives,
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ar archives,
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two different variants of shar archives,
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ISO9660 CD images,
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7-Zip archives,
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ar archives,
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mtree file tree descriptions,
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XAR archives.
XAR archives,
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Zip archive.
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Pax interchange format is an extension of the tar archive format that
eliminates essentially all of the limitations of historic tar formats