Re: libarchive
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Apr 13 2022 10:36 am
Hi DM,
I was going back and reading some of the details about the new libarchive support that was posted last year (I didn't do much with my BBS for several months last year). In one of your announcement posts, you had mentioned the libarchive support, and that compressable/extractable archive support doesn't need to be configured in SCFG anymore. You also mentioned that archive support has been integrated into sbbsecho to pack/unpack archives.
I had a couple questions:
For the compressable/extractable archive types in SCFG, does that mean we could remove the entries for ZIP files and Synchronet will automatically use libarchive for ZIP files? (I have some commands in there for less-common archive types such as ARJ, RAR, etc. and thought of leaving those but removing the ZIP commands.)
Yes, you can remove those (for RAR files too!). For viewing archives (for all supported formats) using libarchive, install the archive.js module ('jsexec archive.js install').
Similarly, in echocfg, if I remove the ZIP archive type, will sbbsecho use libarchive to pack/unpack ZIP files?
Unfortunately, libarchive can't be used to *update* an existing archive, so it's integration in SBBSecho was limited to *extracting* archives. So you'll still want the ZIP (et al) archive type configured in EchoCfg for the creation/updating of archived bundles.
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