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-rw-r--r--archival/Config.in46
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diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in
index 5d5087bce..b26be6486 100644
--- a/archival/Config.in
+++ b/archival/Config.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ config AR
default n
help
ar is an archival utility program used to create, modify, and
- extract contents from archives. An archive is a single file holding
+ extract contents from archives. An archive is a single file holding
a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to
retrieve the original individual files (called archive members).
The original files' contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner,
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ config FEATURE_AR_LONG_FILENAMES
default n
depends on AR
help
- By default the ar format can only store the first 15 characters of the
- filename, this option removes that limitation.
+ By default the ar format can only store the first 15 characters of
+ the filename, this option removes that limitation.
It supports the GNU ar long filename method which moves multiple long
filenames into a the data section of a new ar entry.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ config BUNZIP2
default n
help
bunzip2 is a compression utility using the Burrows-Wheeler block
- sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression
+ 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.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config BZIP2
default n
help
bzip2 is a compression utility using the Burrows-Wheeler block
- sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression
+ 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.
@@ -68,15 +68,15 @@ config CPIO
bool "cpio"
default n
help
- cpio is an archival utility program used to create, modify, and extract
- contents from archives.
+ cpio is an archival utility program used to create, modify, and
+ extract contents from archives.
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.
- Unless you have a specific application which requires cpio, you should
- probably say N here.
+ Unless you have a specific application which requires cpio, you
+ should probably say N here.
config FEATURE_CPIO_O
bool "Support for archive creation"
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ config DPKG_DEB
bool "dpkg_deb"
default n
help
- dpkg-deb packs, unpacks and provides information about Debian archives.
+ dpkg-deb packs, unpacks and provides information about Debian
+ archives.
This implementation of dpkg-deb cannot pack archives.
@@ -112,9 +113,10 @@ config FEATURE_DPKG_DEB_EXTRACT_ONLY
default n
depends on 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
- needed, they are linked to internally.
+ 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.
config GUNZIP
bool "gunzip"
@@ -240,8 +242,9 @@ config FEATURE_TAR_OLDSUN_COMPATIBILITY
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.
+ 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 "Support for GNU tar extensions (long filenames)"
@@ -281,7 +284,7 @@ config UNLZMA
default n
help
unlzma is a compression utility using the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain
- compression algorithm, and range coding. Compression
+ compression algorithm, and range coding. Compression
is generally considerably better than that achieved by the bzip2
compressors.
@@ -322,18 +325,19 @@ config FEATURE_DEB_TAR_GZ
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.
+ If you want compatibility with standard .deb's you should say yes
+ here.
config FEATURE_DEB_TAR_BZ2
bool "bzip2 debian packages"
default n
depends on DPKG || DPKG_DEB
help
- This allows dpkg and dpkg-deb to extract deb's that are compressed internally
- with bzip2 instead of gzip.
+ 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.
+ 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 FEATURE_DEB_TAR_LZMA
bool "lzma debian packages"