app-arch/libarchive

C library for reading and writing tar, cpio, zip, ISO, and other archive formats.

Versions

Slot Version Repository Platforms
0 3.8.1 arbor ~amd64 ~arm ~armv7 ~armv8 ~x86

Metadata

Homepage (
    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
    https://libarchive.org
)
Summary C library for reading and writing tar, cpio, zip, ISO, and other archive formats
Description The formats supported include: gzip (read and write, uses zlib) bzip2 (read and write, uses bzlib) compress (read and write, uses an internal implementation) uudecode (read and write) cpio (read and write, including odc and newc variants) separate command-line compressors with fixed-signature auto-detection xz, lzip, and lzma (read and write using liblzma) tar (read and write, including GNU extensions) pax (read and write, including GNU and star extensions) ISO9660 (read and write, including Joliet and Rockridge extensions, with some limitations) zip (read and write, with some limitations, uses zlib) mtree (read and write, uses separate libraries for creating and verifying cryptographic hashes) shar (write only) ar (read and write, including BSD and GNU/SysV variants) empty (read only; in particular, note that no other format will accept an empty file) raw (read only) xar (read only) lha/lzh (read only) rar (read only) Microsoft CAB format (read only) 7-Zip (read only)
Dependencies (
    (
        install:
        app-admin/eclectic[>=2.0.13]
    )
    (
        build:
        virtual/pkg-config
        build+run:
        app-arch/bzip2
        app-arch/xz[>=5.2.0]
        sys-libs/zlib[>=1.2.1]
        virtual/gzip
        acl? (
            sys-apps/acl
        )
        blake2? (
            app-crypt/libb2
        )
        lz4? (
            app-arch/lz4
        )
        xattr? (
            sys-apps/attr
        )
        zstd? (
            app-arch/zstd
        )
        providers:expat? (
            dev-libs/expat
        )
        providers:libressl? (
            dev-libs/libressl:=
        )
        providers:libxml2? (
            dev-libs/libxml2:=
        )
        providers:mbedtls? (
            dev-libs/mbedtls
        )
        providers:nettle? (
            dev-libs/nettle:=
        )
        providers:openssl? (
            dev-libs/openssl:=
        )
        run:
        !app-arch/tar[<1.28-r2]
    )
)
Downloads https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/download/v3.8.1/libarchive-3.8.1.tar.xz
Licences (
    BSD-2
    BSD-3
    public-domain
)

Choices

OPTIONS

acl Adds support for Access Control Lists
blake2 Support for the BLAKE2 hash function through libb2
lz4 Support lz4 compression (fast, lossless data compression algorithm)
xattr Adds support for Extended File Attributes
zstd Support for the ZStandard compression algorithm

providers

expat Use expat for XML handling
libressl Use LibreSSL as the SSL provider
libxml2 Use libxml2 for XML handling
mbedtls Use mbed TLS as the SSL provider
nettle Use nettle as the SSL provider
openssl Use OpenSSL as the SSL provider