[PATCH] Add libtar.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

>From 0039b2d36f77d19c92e07e02c7b3e829c485f355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 11:45:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add libtar.

* gnu/packages/compression.scm (libtar): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/compression.scm | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
index 1cf84a3..3935dbe 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm
@@ -97,6 +97,27 @@ in compression.")
 utility.  Instead of being written in Java, FastJar is written in C.")
    (license license:gpl2+)))
 
+(define-public libtar
+  (package
+   (name "libtar")
+   (version "1.2.11")
+   (source (origin
+            (method url-fetch)
+            (uri (string-append
+                  "ftp://ftp.feep.net/pub/software/libtar/libtar-";
+                  version ".tar.gz"))
+            (sha256
+             (base32
+              "1f3vx1wa69a6c5y0z0aakd81gygirdcm0vimazg433q8nyvfybja"))))
+   (build-system gnu-build-system)
+   (arguments `(#:tests? #f)) ;no "check" target
+   (synopsis "C library for manipulating POSIX tar files")
+   (description
+    "libtar is a C library for manipulating POSIX tar files.  It handles
+adding and extracting files to/from a tar archive.")
+   (home-page "http://www.feep.net/libtar/";)
+   (license license:bsd-3)))
+
 (define-public gzip
   (package
    (name "gzip")
-- 
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