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Package Name tar
Summary Management of TAR Archive Format Files
Description Tar is short for "tape archiver", so named for historical reasons; the tar program creates, adds files to, or extracts files from an archive file in tar format, called a tarfile. A tarfile is often a magnetic tape, but can be a floppy diskette or any regular disk file.
Homepage URL http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Vendor Free Software Foundation
Packager OpenPKG Foundation e.V.
Distribution OpenPKG Community
Class CORE  
Group Archiver
Distribution License GPL
Vendor Software Version 1.20
OpenPKG Package Release 20080414
Build-Time Options none
Build-Time Dependencies OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20040130, gcc
Install-Time Dependencies OpenPKG, openpkg >= 20040130
Security Advisories 2006.038, 2006.006

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OpenPKG-CURRENT
1.20-20080414 
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