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FreeBSD archivers : star

Unique standard tape archiver with many enhancements

 star is the fastest known implementation of a tar archiver. star
development started 1982, development is still in progress. The
current version is stable.

Main advantages over other tar implementations:
	fifo			- Keeps the tape streaming.
	pattern matcher		- For a convenient user interface.
	sophisticated diff	- User tailorable interface for comparing tar 
				  archives against file trees.
	no namelen limitation	- Pathnames up to 1024 Bytes may be archived.
	deals with all 3 times	- Stores/restores all 3 times of a file.
	does not clobber files	- More recent copies on disk will not be 
				  clobbered from tape.
	automatic byte swap	- star automatically detects swapped archives.
	automatic format detect	- Automatically detects archive formats:
				  old tar, gnu tar, ansi tar, star.
	fully ansi compatible	- star is fully ANSI/Posix 1003.1 compatible. 

star history

v. 1.44
date: 2005/04/12 03:24:47;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
At Kris's request, back out the MACHINE_ARCH spelling correction until
after 5.4-RELEASE.

v. 1.43
date: 2005/04/11 11:23:15;  author: flz;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1
- ARCH is defined in bsd.port.mk

v. 1.42
date: 2005/04/11 08:01:17;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
Assist getting more ports working on AMD64 by obeying the
Ports Collection documentation and use 'ARCH' rather than 'MACHINE_ARCH'.

v. 1.41
date: 2004/06/22 20:39:30;  author: pav;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -0
- Register conflict with newly added archivers/star-devel port

v. 1.40
date: 2004/02/04 05:18:19;  author: marcus;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.

(Part 2)

v. 1.39
date: 2003/02/23 11:07:26;  author: olgeni;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
Suppress command echo.

v. 1.38
date: 2003/02/23 10:51:28;  author: olgeni;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
De-pkg-comment my ports + some more.

v. 1.37
date: 2003/02/17 21:05:31;  author: olgeni;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Update to version 1.4.3.

v. 1.36
date: 2003/01/18 18:56:58;  author: olgeni;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Take over maintainership.

v. 1.35
date: 2003/01/02 17:58:25;  author: ijliao;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
upgrade to 1.4.2

PR:		45866
Submitted by:	Ports Fury

v. 1.34
date: 2002/12/28 03:22:23;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Fix master_site.
Noticed by: portsurvey

v. 1.33
date: 2002/11/10 16:44:58;  author: lioux;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -2
o Rollback PORTCOMMENT modifications while this feature's implementation
  is better studied
o Turn PORTCOMMENT variable in Makefile back into pkg-comment files

Approved by:	kris (portmgr hat),
		portmgr, re (silence)

v. 1.32
date: 2002/11/06 22:43:41;  author: adamw;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -0
Use PORTCOMMENT in the Makefile, and whack the pkg-comment.

Approved by:	pat

v. 1.31
date: 2002/10/19 19:09:55;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
USE_BZIP2

v. 1.30
date: 2002/07/21 00:43:29;  author: naddy;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
* Fix a typo.
* Allow this to build with other compilers than "cc" or "gcc".

v. 1.29
date: 2002/06/27 19:11:02;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Update to version 1.4.1.

v. 1.28
date: 2002/06/17 20:31:17;  author: ijliao;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -9
upgrade to 1.4

PR:		39428
Submitted by:	Ports Fury

v. 1.27
date: 2002/06/10 20:03:55;  author: trevor;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Tidy up after repo copy of ports/sysutils/star to ports/archivers/star.

PR:		37145
Submitted by:	Thomas Hurst

v. 1.26
date: 2002/06/08 17:31:32;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
To ports@freebsd.org.

v. 1.25
date: 2001/05/04 16:20:15;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -4
Update to version 1.3.

Submitted by:	Christian Weisgerber 

v. 1.24
date: 2001/04/14 02:19:33;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -4
* Build with compilers other than cc:  egcs, ccc, ....
* Cosmetic:  Remove useless subshell.

Submitted by:	Christian Weisgerber 

v. 1.23
date: 2001/02/07 14:51:15;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
Put back my editor hints that were removed w/o permission.
Note these are *FULLY* Satoshi approved for the past 4 years.

v. 1.22
date: 2000/04/22 10:13:18;  author: mharo;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Corrrect whitespace introduced during PORTNAME conversion and portlint

v. 1.21
date: 2000/04/09 19:08:32;  author: cpiazza;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
Update with the new PORTNAME/PORTVERSION variable

v. 1.20
date: 2000/03/22 00:27:47;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
Restore useless version required comments.

v. 1.19
date: 2000/03/20 02:37:20;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
Remove the "version required" line.

v. 1.18
date: 2000/02/21 16:41:35;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Change maintainer.

v. 1.17
date: 2000/02/20 17:01:13;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Reducing Maintainership to an amount of ports
I can handle.

Sorry, the rest has to go to ports@FreeBSD.ORG.

v. 1.16
date: 1999/11/08 20:40:09;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1
As requested by Christian Weisgerber

v. 1.15
date: 1999/08/31 06:50:56;  author: mharo;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org

Prompted by PR:  13476, 13477
Submitted by:  KATO Tsuguru

v. 1.14
date: 1999/08/31 02:00:06;  author: peter;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

v. 1.13
date: 1999/07/20 06:00:41;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
move it back to old place ${prefix}/bin.

v. 1.12
date: 1999/07/19 20:36:40;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
link it statically...
changed installation path from ${PREFIX}/bin to ${PREFIX}/sbin

noticed, that ${PREFIX}/sbin is populated by dynamically linked
programs... Wasn't the intention of sbin directories, to include
statically linked programs ? Or is this degenerated, because it's
ports here and the only statically linked programs reside on
the root filesystem in /sbin ???

v. 1.11
date: 1999/07/19 20:21:45;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -2
forgot to remove no package entirely

v. 1.10
date: 1999/07/19 20:21:14;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -6
Committ rest of changes, Steve already fixed ALPHA part

PR:		closes 11717
Submitted by:	Christian Weisgerber 

v. 1.9
date: 1999/06/05 15:31:30;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
added NO_PACKAGE=ignores cflags

Submitted by:	Christian Weisgerber 

v. 1.8
date: 1999/05/31 05:08:06;  author: steve;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -2
Fix build for Alpha.

v. 1.7
date: 1998/12/24 13:15:23;  author: dirk;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -5
- Upgrade to 1.2
- add ${MASTER_SITE_SUNSITE} to ${MASTER_SITES}

Requested by:	Andreas Klemm 

v. 1.6
date: 1997/10/09 21:04:45;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
cosmetic changes, changed MAINTAINER address to andreas@FreeBSD.ORG

v. 1.5
date: 1997/10/04 14:53:09;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -4
cosmetic changes using portlint, a really nice tool ;-)

v. 1.4
date: 1997/06/18 20:42:10;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -4
Update star port from version 1.0 to 1.1

v. 1.3
date: 1997/05/19 18:00:38;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -1
important fix for sparse file handling from the author of star
PR:
approved by:	Satoshi
Submitted by:
Obtained from:

v. 1.2
date: 1997/05/07 02:03:58;  author: asami;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -6
No need to use "+=" to define MAKE_ENV.

Also, replace the four lines starting with .if !defined(NOMANCOMPRESS)...
with a single line MAN1=star.1.  I think that's much easier. :)

v. 1.1
date: 1997/05/03 10:16:32;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;
branches:  1.1.1;
Initial revision

v. 1.1.1.1
date: 1997/05/03 10:16:32;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -0
New port "star"

Main advantages over other tar implementations:
	fifo			- keeps the tape streaming.
	pattern matcher		- for a convenient user interface
	sophisticated diff	- user tailorable interface for comparing tar
				  archives against file trees
	no namelen limitation	- Pathnames up to 1024 Bytes may be archived.
	deals with all 3 times	- stores/restores all 3 times of a file
	does not clobber files	- more recent copies on disk will not be
				  clobbered from tape
	automatic byte swap	- star automatically detects swapped archives
	automatic format detect	- automatically detects archive formats:
				  Old tar, gnu tar, ansi tar, star.
	fully ansi compatible	- Star is fully ANSI/Posix 1003.1 compatible.
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