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kapsul-0.0.0beta10p0

manage .ptar archives

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Description

Kapsul is a tool that allows you to run most plakar sub-commands directly on .ptar archives. It transparently mounts the archive as an in-memory, read-only Plakar repository, enabling inspection, restoration, and diffing operations without extracting the archive. Features: Efficient access to .ptar archives Supports most plakar commands No persistent state or extraction required

Package information

Ports path
archivers/kapsul
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@openbsd.org>
Categories
archivers, sysutils, lang/go
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, riscv64
Excluded architectures
i386

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