libarchive-devel contains the header files for developing applications that want to make use of libarchive.
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Multi-format archive and compression library
libarchive is an open-source BSD-licensed C programming library that provides streaming access to a variety of different archive formats, including tar, cpio, pax, zip, and ISO9660 images. The distribution also includes bsdtar and bsdcpio, full-featured implementations of tar and cpio that use libarchive.