Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/archivers/parchive
To: None <cjep@netbsd.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 12/13/2002 21:41:30
In article <20021213182435.C482EB42C@cvs.netbsd.org>,
cjep@netbsd.org (Chris Pinnock) writes:
>
> Module Name: pkgsrc
> Committed By: cjep
> Date: Fri Dec 13 18:24:35 UTC 2002
>
> Update of /cvsroot/pkgsrc/archivers/parchive
> In directory minbar.netbsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv2819
>
> Log Message:
> Initial import of parchive 1.0 (a.k.a. par) into the NetBSD packages
> collection as archivers/parchive.
>
> The idea behind parchive is to provide a tool to apply the data-recovery
> capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of
> multi-part archives on Usenet. Current filespec and clients support the
> 'Reed-Soloman Code' implementation that allows for recovery of any 'X'
> volumes for 'X' parity volumes present.
This appears to be a duplicate of misc/parchive.
--
Frederick