PackIt

A simple library and CLI utility to pack filesystems into single blobs. It is a rework of the original tooling written by Jörg Rödel.

Feature flags

Without any feature flags, the crate can only decode archive blobs - this might be sufficient for embedded systems or early boot software which might not have an allocator or a standard library.

On top of that, several incremental feature flags can be enabled:

• alloc: builds the library with alloc support, which enables the use of the PackItArchive struct for easier archive manipulation.
• std: links the library to the Rust std library, which enables the use of the PackItArchiveEncoder struct and allows encoding an archive into any type that implements Write.
• cli: builds a CLI utility for archive packing, unpacking and listing. Install this tool with cargo install --path $(repo) -F cli.

Full details of the library API are provided via cargo doc.

CLI tool

The command line tool is very simple to use. It has 3 subcommands: pack packs a directory into a PackIt archive; unpack extracts a PackIt archive into a local directory; list simply lists the files in an archive. Full command help can be displayed via packit -h and packit <subcommand> -h.