Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract::Libarchive

Alien::Build plugin to extract a tarball using libarchive

SYNOPSIS

use alienfile;

share {
  ...
  plugin 'Extract::Libarchive';
  ...
};

DESCRIPTION

This is a Alien::Build extract plugin that uses libarchive via Archive::Libarchive::Extract and Archive::Libarchive. Its main advantage is that it supports a wider array of archive formats than existing plugins, and doesn't require that you specify a format. (libarchive is typically smart enough to be able to detect the format).

Its main disadvantage is extended build time, due to the number of formats it supports it has a number of dependencies (both Perl and external). It should however, build on most modern systems using Alien technology if the system does not provide its own libarchive.

SEE ALSO

• Alien

  The Alien concept.

• Alien::Build

  The Alien::Build system.

• alienfile

  The recipe format for Alien::Build.

• Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract

  Overview of Alien::Build extract plugins.

• Archive::Libarchive

  Low level Perl interface to libarchive for reading and writing.

• Archive::Libarchive::Extract

  Higher level interface to extract from archives using libarchive.

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis plicease@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021-2022 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.