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glaucus

libarchive

  • glaucus uses toybox cpio
  • bsdcpio is as fast as rust 3cpio and toybox cpio
  • bsdcpio is much faster compared to regular cpio
  • bsdtar -p implies --acl --xattrs, it also only works in x mode

Prepare

Section titled “Prepare”
  • Depdends on queue.h; provides its own unzip/la_queue.h

Configure

Section titled “Configure”
  • cng is windows only
  • lzo is disabled by default
  • mbedtls and nettle are disabled by default
  • xml2 and expat are for macos xar

Other

Section titled “Other”
  • Avoid --no-same-permissions
  • Avoid --numeric-owner
  • Prefer bsdunzip over unmaintained Info-ZIP unzip
  • Prefer --no-same-owner

References

Section titled “References”