2 # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file,
3 # see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt.
6 menu "Archival Utilities"
8 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_LZMA
9 bool "Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .lzma data"
12 Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .lzma data.
14 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_BZ2
15 bool "Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .bz2 data"
18 Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .bz2 data.
20 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ
21 bool "Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .gz data"
24 Make tar, rpm, modprobe etc understand .gz data.
26 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_Z
27 bool "Make tar and gunzip understand .Z data"
30 Make tar and gunzip understand .Z data.
32 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_AR
36 ar is an archival utility program used to create, modify, and
37 extract contents from archives. An archive is a single file holding
38 a collection of other files in a structure that makes it possible to
39 retrieve the original individual files (called archive members).
40 The original files' contents, mode (permissions), timestamp, owner,
41 and group are preserved in the archive, and can be restored on
44 The stored filename is limited to 15 characters. (for more information
45 see long filename support).
46 ar has 60 bytes of overheads for every stored file.
48 This implementation of ar can extract archives, it cannot create or
50 On an x86 system, the ar applet adds about 1K.
52 Unless you have a specific application which requires ar, you should
55 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_AR_LONG_FILENAMES
56 bool "Support for long filenames (not needed for debs)"
58 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_AR
60 By default the ar format can only store the first 15 characters
61 of the filename, this option removes that limitation.
62 It supports the GNU ar long filename method which moves multiple long
63 filenames into a the data section of a new ar entry.
65 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BUNZIP2
69 bunzip2 is a compression utility using the Burrows-Wheeler block
70 sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression
71 is generally considerably better than that achieved by more
72 conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the
73 performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
75 Unless you have a specific application which requires bunzip2, you
76 should probably say N here.
78 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BZIP2
82 bzip2 is a compression utility using the Burrows-Wheeler block
83 sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression
84 is generally considerably better than that achieved by more
85 conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the
86 performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.
88 Unless you have a specific application which requires bzip2, you
89 should probably say N here.
91 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_CPIO
95 cpio is an archival utility program used to create, modify, and
96 extract contents from archives.
97 cpio has 110 bytes of overheads for every stored file.
99 This implementation of cpio can extract cpio archives created in the
100 "newc" or "crc" format, it cannot create or modify them.
102 Unless you have a specific application which requires cpio, you
103 should probably say N here.
105 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CPIO_O
106 bool "Support for archive creation"
108 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_CPIO
110 This implementation of cpio can create cpio archives in the "newc"
113 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CPIO_P
114 bool "Support for passthrough mode"
116 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_CPIO_O
118 Passthrough mode. Rarely used.
120 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DPKG
123 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ
125 dpkg is a medium-level tool to install, build, remove and manage
128 This implementation of dpkg has a number of limitations,
129 you should use the official dpkg if possible.
131 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DPKG_DEB
134 select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ
136 dpkg-deb unpacks and provides information about Debian archives.
138 This implementation of dpkg-deb cannot pack archives.
140 Unless you have a specific application which requires dpkg-deb,
143 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_DPKG_DEB_EXTRACT_ONLY
144 bool "Extract only (-x)"
146 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DPKG_DEB
148 This reduces dpkg-deb to the equivalent of
149 "ar -p <deb> data.tar.gz | tar -zx". However it saves space as none
150 of the extra dpkg-deb, ar or tar options are needed, they are linked
153 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GUNZIP
157 gunzip is used to decompress archives created by gzip.
158 You can use the `-t' option to test the integrity of
159 an archive, without decompressing it.
161 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GZIP
165 gzip is used to compress files.
166 It's probably the most widely used UNIX compression program.
168 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_GZIP_LONG_OPTIONS
169 bool "Enable long options"
171 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_GZIP && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LONG_OPTS
173 Enable use of long options, increases size by about 106 Bytes
175 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LZOP
179 Lzop compression/decompresion.
181 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LZOP_COMPR_HIGH
182 bool "lzop complession levels 7,8,9 (not very useful)"
184 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LZOP
186 High levels (7,8,9) of lzop compression. These levels
187 are actually slower than gzip at equivalent compression ratios
188 and take up 3.2K of code.
190 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_RPM2CPIO
194 Converts an RPM file into a CPIO archive.
196 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_RPM
200 Mini RPM applet - queries and extracts RPM packages.
202 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR
206 tar is an archiving program. It's commonly used with gzip to
207 create compressed archives. It's probably the most widely used
208 UNIX archive program.
210 if BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR
212 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE
213 bool "Enable archive creation"
215 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR
217 If you enable this option you'll be able to create
218 tar archives using the `-c' option.
220 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_AUTODETECT
221 bool "Autodetect compressed tarballs"
223 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_Z || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_BZ2 || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_LZMA
225 With this option tar can automatically detect compressed
226 tarballs. Currently it works only on files (not pipes etc).
228 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_FROM
229 bool "Enable -X (exclude from) and -T (include from) options)"
231 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR
233 If you enable this option you'll be able to specify
234 a list of files to include or exclude from an archive.
236 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY
237 bool "Support for old tar header format"
239 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR
241 This option is required to unpack archives created in
242 the old GNU format; help to kill this old format by
243 repacking your ancient archives with the new format.
245 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDSUN_COMPATIBILITY
246 bool "Enable untarring of tarballs with checksums produced by buggy Sun tar"
248 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR
250 This option is required to unpack archives created by some old
251 version of Sun's tar (it was calculating checksum using signed
252 arithmetic). It is said to be fixed in newer Sun tar, but "old"
253 tarballs still exist.
255 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS
256 bool "Support for GNU tar extensions (long filenames)"
258 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR
260 With this option busybox supports GNU long filenames and
263 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_LONG_OPTIONS
264 bool "Enable long options"
266 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_LONG_OPTS
268 Enable use of long options, increases size by about 400 Bytes
270 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_UNAME_GNAME
271 bool "Enable use of user and group names"
273 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR
275 Enables use of user and group names in tar. This affects contents
276 listings (-t) and preserving permissions when unpacking (-p).
279 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_NOPRESERVE_TIME
280 bool "Enable -m (do not preserve time) option"
282 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TAR
284 With this option busybox supports GNU tar -m
285 (do not preserve time) option.
289 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNCOMPRESS
293 uncompress is used to decompress archives created by compress.
294 Not much used anymore, replaced by gzip/gunzip.
296 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNLZMA
300 unlzma is a compression utility using the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain
301 compression algorithm, and range coding. Compression
302 is generally considerably better than that achieved by the bzip2
305 The BusyBox unlzma applet is limited to de-compression only.
306 On an x86 system, this applet adds about 4K.
308 Unless you have a specific application which requires unlzma, you
309 should probably say N here.
311 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_LZMA_FAST
312 bool "Optimize unlzma for speed"
314 depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNLZMA
316 This option reduces decompression time by about 25% at the cost of
319 config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UNZIP
323 unzip will list or extract files from a ZIP archive,
324 commonly found on DOS/WIN systems. The default behavior
325 (with no options) is to extract the archive into the
326 current directory. Use the `-d' option to extract to a
327 directory of your choice.