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Diffstat (limited to 'archival')
| -rw-r--r-- | archival/Config.in | 46 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 21 deletions
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" |