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diff --git a/app-arch/xar/metadata.xml b/app-arch/xar/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..3ddd51ed75fb --- /dev/null +++ b/app-arch/xar/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <maintainer type="project"> + <email>prefix@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Gentoo Prefix</name> + </maintainer> + <longdescription lang="en"> + The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. + Important design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of + contents for random access to archived files, storing the toc at the + beginning of the archive to allow for efficient handling of streamed + archives, the ability to handle files of arbitrarily large sizes, the + ability to choose independent encodings for individual files in the + archive, the ability to store checksums for individual files in both + compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability to query the table of + content's rich meta-data. + </longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |