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Diffstat (limited to 'archival')
| -rw-r--r-- | archival/Config.in | 39 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in index cc65b6db4..fddcff462 100644 --- a/archival/Config.in +++ b/archival/Config.in @@ -120,20 +120,25 @@ 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. + 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 used UNIX compression program. config CONFIG_RPM2CPIO bool "rpm2cpio" @@ -151,36 +156,41 @@ 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 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_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY bool " Enable support for old tar header format" @@ -196,7 +206,7 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS default y depends on CONFIG_TAR help - With this option usybox supports the GNU long filename + With this option busybox supports the GNU long filename and linkanmes. config CONFIG_FEATURE_UNARCHIVE_TAPE @@ -210,12 +220,17 @@ 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. endmenu |