feedback, but the 2.5 branch is shaping up nicely.)
In addition to many small bug fixes and code improvements:
* Another iteration of versioning; I think I've got it right now.
* Portability: A lot of progress on Windows support (though I'm
not committing all of the Windows support files to FreeBSD CVS)
* Explicit tracking of MBS, WCS, and UTF-8 versions of strings
in archive_entry; the archive_entry routines now correctly return
NULL only when something is unset, setting NULL properly clears
string values. Most charset conversions have been pushed down to
archive_string.
* Better handling of charset conversion failure when writing or
reading UTF-8 headers in pax archives
* archive_entry_linkify() provides multiple strategies for
hardlink matching to suit different format expectations
* More accurate bzip2 format detection
* Joerg Sonnenberger's extensive improvements to mtree support
* Rough support for self-extracting ZIP archives. Not an ideal
approach, but it works for the archives I've tried.
* New "sparsify" option in archive_write_disk converts blocks of nulls
into seeks.
* Better default behavior for the test harness; it now reports
all failures by default instead of coredumping at the first one.
exercises and verifies the libarchive APIs:
* Improved error reporting; hexdumps are now provided for
many file/memory content differences.
* Overall status more clearly counts "tests" and "assertions"
* Reference files can now be stored on disk instead of having
to be compiled into the test program itself. A couple of
tests have been converted to this more natural structure.
* Several memory leaks corrected so that leaks within libarchive
itself can be more easily detected and diagnosed.
* New test: GNU tar compatibility
* New test: Zip compatibility
* New test: Zero-byte writes to a compressed archive entry
* New test: archive_entry_strmode() format verification
* New test: mtree reader
* New test: write/read of large (2G - 1TB) entries to tar archives
(thanks to recent performance work, this test only requires a few seconds)
* New test: detailed format verification of cpio odc and newc writers
* Many minor additions/improvements to existing tests as well.
if there was more than one. In particular, this simplifies
test_tar_filenames.c, which has a tendency to be very noisy otherwise.
Approved by: re (blanket, libarchive testing)
ARCHIVE_VERSION_STAMP to selectively disable tests that don't
apply to that version; new "skipping()" function reports skipped
tests; modify final summary to report component test failures and
skips.
Note: I don't currently intend to MFC the test suite itself;
anyone interested should just checkout and use this version
of the test suite, which should work for any library version.
Approved by: re (Ken Smith, blanket)
* "compression_program" support uses an external program
* Portability: no longer uses "struct stat" as a primary
data interchange structure internally
* Part of the above: refactor archive_entry to separate
out copy_stat() and stat() functions
* More complete tests for archive_entry
* Finish archive_entry_clone()
* Isolate major()/minor()/makedev() in archive_entry; remove
these from everywhere else.
* Bug fix: properly handle decompression look-ahead at end-of-data
* Bug fixes to 'ar' support
* Fix memory leak in ZIP reader
* Portability: better timegm() emulation in iso9660 reader
* New write_disk flags to suppress auto dir creation and not
overwrite newer files (for future cpio front-end)
* Simplify trailing-'/' fixup when writing tar and pax
* Test enhancements: fix various compiler warnings, improve
portability, add lots of new tests.
* Documentation: document new functions, first draft of
libarchive_internals.3
MFC after: 14 days
Thanks to: Joerg Sonnenberger (compression_program)
Thanks to: Kai Wang (ar)
Thanks to: Colin Percival (many small fixes)
Thanks to: Many others who sent me various patches and problem reports.
for directories. bsdtar used to add this, but that recently got
lost somehow. So now I'm adding it back in libarchive.
The only odd part of doing this in libarchive: Adding a directory to
a tar archive and then reading it back again can yield a different name.
Add a test case to exercise some boundary conditions with
tar filenames and ensure that trailing slashes are added to
dir names only as necessary.
Thanks to: Oliver Lehmann for bringing this regression to my attention.