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hannob
3677 days ago
afaik neither zip nor 7z store unix permissions, file ownership, symlinks and a bunch of other features.
Other than that the "modern" version of it is .tar.xz.
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aroch
3677 days ago
I believe, technically, you can store that data in a zip's metadata headers. It is just pretty much every zip/unzip implementation doesn't support it / permission restoration breaks across OSes
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