From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6234 invoked by alias); 16 Mar 2009 03:29:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 28387 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Mar 2009 03:22:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Charles Wilson Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:29:00 -0000 Subject: [1.7] Updated: {libarchive/libarchive2/libarchive-devel/bsdtar/bsdcpio}-2.7.0pre-10 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Message-Id: <20090316032243.3A0852C643@heartbeat2.messagingengine.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-03/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants and several cpio formats. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images. The bsdtar program is an implementation of tar(1) that is built on top of libarchive. Libarchive is rapidly gearing up for the 2.7.0 final release (est. early April). This package will be updated again at that time. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7. However, it differs in one significant aspect from the simultaneously-released libarchive-2.7.0pre-1 for cygwin-1.5: this version supports extended attributes, because it was compiled against the new cygwin-1.7 kernel which provides the necessary facilities. As usual, this package also differs in various trivial ways from the cygwin-1.5 package: the README references cygport-0.9.5 and cygwin-1.7.0-43, and the /usr/share/doc/ layout is influenced by the cygport changes between 0.4.x and 0.9.x. CHANGES (since 2.5.5-1) ======================== o Fork for cygwin-1.7 development o Adds support for extended attributes o Updated to latest upstream SVN (r. 772) - upstream added support for lzma, xz compression and decompression. The cygwin 2.5.5 release included only lzma decompression, via liblzmadec and an additional patch -- now happily obsolete. This was made possible by the upstream copyright owners of LZMA SDK and LZMA Utils placing their code in the public domain, as the earlier licenses (various, incl. GPL) were unsuitable for use by the militantly-BSD-licensed libarchive. - upstream has been working heavily towards a native win32 port. Unfortunately, all of their #ifdefs broke cygwin; this version is heavily patched to accommodate both platforms. Patch sent upstream, but beware: here there be dragons (but, the whole test suite passes with no errors). o Recompiled against liblzma o Updated hint files to refect new dependencies and package names -- Charles Wilson volunteer libarchive maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.