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Diffstat (limited to 'archival')
| -rw-r--r-- | archival/Config.in | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in index ecef07f7c..121cf0282 100644 --- a/archival/Config.in +++ b/archival/Config.in @@ -9,7 +9,17 @@ config CONFIG_AR bool "ar" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + ar is an archival utility program used to create, modify, and + 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, + and group are preserved in the archive, and can be restored on + extraction. + On an x86 system, the ar applet adds about XXX bytes. + + Unless you have a specific application which requires ar, you should + probably say N here. config CONFIG_FEATURE_AR_LONG_FILENAMES bool " Enable support for long filenames (not need for debs)" @@ -22,7 +32,17 @@ config CONFIG_BUNZIP2 bool "bunzip2" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + bunzip2 is an compression utility using the Burrows-Wheeler block + 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. + + The BusyBox bunzip2 applet is limited to de-compression only. On an + x86 system, this applet adds about XXX bytes. + + Unless you have a specific application which requires bunzip2, you + should probably say N here. config CONFIG_CPIO bool "cpio" |