./wip/paxmirabilis, Archiving utility for tar, cpio and ar

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 20171021, Package name: paxmirabilis-20171021, Maintainer: bsiegert

paxmirabilis (based on paxtar), is an implementation of an archiving
utility that reads and writes several formats -- traditional ones, the
extended formats specified in IEEE 1003.1, and the ar(5) format used by
deb(5) packages (MirBSD specific paxtar extension). The pax interface
was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a compromise in the chronic controversy
over which of tar or cpio is best, but this implementation offers
paxcpio and paxtar for easy calling.

This software is developed as part of The MirOS Project, in the form of
one of the portable subprojects, similar to mksh. It is now the default
pax implementation in Debian GNU/Linux.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

Master sites:

RMD160: c3dc05bc211456f7c5af5aec5e00f034fc807e16
Filesize: 144.952 KB

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   2013-06-08 13:36:04 by Benny Siegert | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
Update paxmirabilis to 20120606.

Changes: some bugfixes from OpenBSD were pulled in.
   2012-10-04 21:44:06 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (18)
Log message:
Drop superfluous PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT, "user-destdir" is default these days.
Mark packages that don't or might probably not have staged installation.
   2012-06-02 17:39:09 by Benny Siegert | Files touched by this commit (4)
Log message:
Add a package for paxmirabilis. From DESCR:

paxmirabilis (based on paxtar), is an implementation of an archiving
utility that reads and writes several formats -- traditional ones, the
extended formats specified in IEEE 1003.1, and the ar(5) format used by
deb(5) packages (MirBSD specific paxtar extension). The pax interface
was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a compromise in the chronic controversy
over which of tar or cpio is best, but this implementation offers
paxcpio and paxtar for easy calling.

This software is developed as part of The MirOS Project, in the form of
one of the portable subprojects, similar to mksh. It is now the default
pax implementation in Debian GNU/Linux.