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[pkgsrc/trunk]: pkgsrc/archivers/bsdtar Diction/spelling/grammar fixes.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/rev/fa05c6c321b6
branches: trunk
changeset: 536363:fa05c6c321b6
user: bjs <bjs%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
date: Tue Dec 11 17:35:57 2007 +0000
description:
Diction/spelling/grammar fixes.
diffstat:
archivers/bsdtar/DESCR | 17 +++++++++--------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diffs (23 lines):
diff -r 3a9556ae3047 -r fa05c6c321b6 archivers/bsdtar/DESCR
--- a/archivers/bsdtar/DESCR Tue Dec 11 17:00:46 2007 +0000
+++ b/archivers/bsdtar/DESCR Tue Dec 11 17:35:57 2007 +0000
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several
-different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants
-and several cpio formats. It can also write shar archives and read
-ISO9660 CDROM images.
+The libarchive library contains routines for creating, reading from, and
+writing to different streaming archive formats, e.g. most popular tar
+and cpio formats. Additionally, libarchive supports writing to shar archives
+and reading from ISO-9660 (CD-ROM) images.
-bdtar is a almost fully GNU tar compatible frontend for libarchive. It
-is one of the fastest tar implementations and supports many advances
-features not found elsewhere.
+This package contains bsdtar, a high-efficiency libarchive front-end which
+is [almost] wholly compatible with the ubiquitous GNU tar. It supports
+advanced features many other implementations do not.
-The pkgsrc version is linked to not dpeend on other parts of pkgsrc.
+For your convenience, the installed bsdtar binary will not be linked
+to any pkgsrc-provided libraries.
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