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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<software-distribution project="MinGW" home="http://mingw.org" issue="@YYYYMMDDNN@">
+ <package-collection subsystem="msys">
+ <download-host uri="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/%F?download" />
+ <package name="msys-tar">
+ <affiliate group="MSYS Base System" />
+ <description lang="en" title="tar: GNU tar archiver tool">
+ <paragraph>GNU tar is an archiver that creates and handles file
+ archives in various formats. You can use tar to create file
+ archives, to extract files from previously created archives,
+ store additional files, or update or list files which were
+ already stored.
+ </paragraph>
+ <paragraph>The program saves many files together into a single
+ tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the
+ archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive
+ sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote
+ archives and special features that allow 'tar' to be used for
+ incremental and full backups.
+ </paragraph>
+ <paragraph>The supported archive formats are: V7 tar, GNU, ustar
+ and POSIX (also known as pax interchange format). GNU tar can
+ also read and extract 'star' archives. Tar can direct its output
+ to available devices, files, or other programs (using pipes); tar
+ can even access remote devices or files (as archives).
+ </paragraph>
+ <paragraph>The MinGW/MSYS project provides four different tar
+ implementations: (1) msys-tar, this GNU tar implementation ported
+ for MSYS; (2) msys-bsdtar, a BSD tar implementation based on
+ libarchive and ported for MSYS; (3) mingw32-bsdtar, a BSD tar
+ implementation ported for MinGW (that is, native Win32); and
+ (4) mingw32-basic-bsdtar, a limited-functionality version of
+ mingw32-bsdtar with no external dependencies. GNU tar (e.g.
+ msys-tar) is the de facto standard implementation, but bsdtar
+ is generally faster. Generally, any of these implementations
+ will meet most needs.
+ </paragraph>
+ </description>
+ <component class="bin">
+ <release tarname="tar-1.22-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma" />
+ <release tarname="tar-1.23-1-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma" >
+ <requires eq="msys-libintl-*-msys-*-dll-8.tar" />
+ <requires eq="msys-libiconv-*-msys-*-dll-2.tar" />
+ <requires eq="msys-libregex-*-msys-*-dll-1.tar" />
+ </release>
+ <requires eq="msys-core-*-msys-*-bin.tar" />
+ </component>
+ <component class="lang">
+ <release tarname="tar-1.23-1-msys-1.0.13-lang.tar.lzma" />
+ </component>
+ <component class="ext">
+ <release tarname="tar-1.22-1-msys-1.0.11-ext.tar.lzma" />
+ <release tarname="tar-1.23-1-msys-1.0.13-ext.tar.lzma" />
+ <requires eq="msys-tar-%-msys-%-bin.tar" />
+ <requires eq="msys-core-*-msys-*-bin.tar" />
+ <requires eq="msys-coreutils-*-msys-*-bin.tar" />
+ <requires eq="msys-sed-*-msys-*-bin.tar" />
+ <requires eq="msys-bash-*-msys-*-bin.tar" />
+ </component>
+ <component class="doc">
+ <release tarname="tar-1.22-1-msys-1.0.11-doc.tar.lzma" />
+ <release tarname="tar-1.23-1-msys-1.0.13-doc.tar.lzma" />
+ </component>
+ <component class="lic">
+ <release tarname="tar-1.22-1-msys-1.0.11-lic.tar.lzma" />
+ <release tarname="tar-1.23-1-msys-1.0.13-lic.tar.lzma" />
+ </component>
+ <licence tarname="tar-%-msys-%-lic.tar" />
+ <source tarname="tar-%-msys-%-src.tar" />
+ </package>
+ </package-collection>
+</software-distribution>
+