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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:22:14 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: about zlib on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4B39A016.2010907@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091202141210.GB5425@britannica.bec.de>
References:  <169495.53734.qm@web15703.mail.cnb.yahoo.com>	<867ht5o809.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4B166532.3040108@unsane.co.uk> <20091202141210.GB5425@britannica.bec.de>

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Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:01:38PM +0000, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>> To be fair, bsdtar(1) on my 8-STABLE box says it can read but not that
>> it can create zipfiles.
>> It it can create them that would be handy.
> 
> The support for zip creation hasn't been merged yet.

I finally got around to merging this.

After rebuilding libarchive and tar, tar -c --format=zip
should work.

Note:  The zip writer does have room for improvement; if
anyone's interested in a side project, it would
be great to get ZIP64 support and a few other details
filled in.

Tim



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