This is a straightforward port of libarchive 2.3.4, a library for creating and reading several streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants. It also includes the bsdtar frontend, which has been FreeBSD's tar(1) for some time.
There is one complication: Our old groff can't format the man pages. My current solution is to install pre-formatted cat pages (like in the base system), formatted on a FreeBSD box and provided in an additional distfile. There are funny parts in the port Makefile to facilitate this. I guess rewriting the mdoc markup would be possible, but when I originally consulted jmc@ about this he failed to encourage me. :-) Arguably the port should be called "bsdtar" since the program is probably of greater interest to us than the library. Also, I have stuck with the default and not enabled the unfinished bsdcpio. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libarchive.tgz
Description: GNU Unix tar archive
