[BusyBox-cvs] busybox/archival Config.in,1.2,1.3

Glenn McGrath bug1 at busybox.net
Fri Dec 6 22:40:57 UTC 2002


Update of /var/cvs/busybox/archival
In directory winder:/tmp/cvs-serv5049/archival

Modified Files:
	Config.in 
Log Message:
Add some help descriptions


Index: Config.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/busybox/archival/Config.in,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -d -r1.2 -r1.3
--- Config.in	5 Dec 2002 21:12:41 -0000	1.2
+++ Config.in	6 Dec 2002 22:40:54 -0000	1.3
@@ -15,7 +15,13 @@
 	  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.  
+	  extraction.
+	  The stored filename is limited to 15 characters. (for more information
+	  see long filename support).
+	  ar has 60 bytes of overheads for every stored file.
+
+	  This implementation of ar can extract archives, it cannot create or
+	  modify them.
[...85 lines suppressed...]
 	default n
 	depends on CONFIG_DPKG || CONFIG_DPKG_DEB
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	  This allows dpkg and dpkg-deb to extract deb's that are compressed internally
+	  with bzip2 instead of gzip.
+	  
+	  You only want this is your are creating your own custom debian packages that
+	  use an internal control.tar.bz2 or data.tar.bz2.
 
 config CONFIG_GUNZIP
 	bool "gunzip"
@@ -112,6 +145,7 @@
 	bool "tar"
 	default n
 	help
+	  tar has at least 512 bytes of overheads for every stored file.
 	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE




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