Bug 766131

Summary:	libarchive is built without bsdtar
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marcin Wojdyr <wojdyr>
Component:	libarchive	Assignee:	Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	accounts+fedora, tbzatek, tsmetana
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Description Marcin Wojdyr 2011-12-10 14:00:57 UTC

bsdtar seems to be not packages in Fedora.

I'm using osc (Open Build Server client) which asks me to install bsdtar (it refuses to work with GNU tar for some security reasons).

It seems that bsdtar is built from libarchive in other distros.
In Fedora libarchive is configured with --disable-bsdtar.
Is there a reason for this?

Comment 1 Andrew Gunnerson 2012-01-17 17:37:51 UTC

I'm also wondering about this. bsdtar is unline the regular GNU tar in that it can handle just about any archive format: tar, cpio, lzma, bzip2, gzip, zip, iso, RPM, DEB, xz, etc. Like Marcin mentioned, it's used by the Open Build Server as well as the Arch Linux package manager as a universal archive extraction/creation tool. It's BSD licensed, so I'm not sure why it's not included in Fedora?

Comment 2 Tomáš Bžatek 2012-02-09 12:39:24 UTC

This has been resolved in libarchive-3.0.3-2.fc17

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 786400 ***