| Port details on branch 2023Q4 |
- star Unique standard tape archiver with many enhancements
- 2023.09.28 archivers
 =0      Package not present on quarterly.This is expected early in the quarter (because the new packaage repo has not been built yet.). Otherwise, this missing version is most likely a FreshPorts error. - Maintainer: fuz@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: 2023-12-03 10:21:38
- Last Update: unknown
- License: CDDL
- WWW:
- http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/star.html
- Description:
- Star is the fastest known implementation of a tar archiver.
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 of arbitrary length 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.
support for ACLS and - star supports Access Control Lists as well as
file flags extended file flags
fully ansi compatible - star is fully ANSI/Posix 1003.1 compatible.
sophisticated error - Allows to tell star which error types should be
control ignored for which file name pattern
true incremental - star uses the same method as dump(8)/restore(8)
dump/restore features but acts OS and FS independent
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - Dependency lines:
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- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/archivers/star/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install archivers/star
- pkg install star
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: star
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1696014231
SHA256 (schily-2023-09-28.tar.bz2) = e7dca444c9dfde87ba52a2de7514db5b49427b977d3a23fb081692fe8bac9439
SIZE (schily-2023-09-28.tar.bz2) = 4868865
No package information for this port in our database- Sometimes this happens. Not all ports have packages. Perhaps there is a build error. Check the fallout link:
- Master port: devel/schilybase
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
-
- smake : devel/smake
- gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
- Library dependencies:
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- libschily.so : devel/schilybase
- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for star-2023.09.28:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
GNUTAR=off: Install a gnutar binary
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- archivers_star
- USES:
- tar:bz2 compiler gettext-runtime iconv
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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