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Closes #276.

MacPacker can now open and extract DAR archives through a bundled native libdar engine. Opening a numbered slice resolves the first slice, obtains folder access through the existing split-volume flow, and displays the archive in the existing browser. Whole-archive and selected-file/folder extraction use MacPacker's existing commands and password prompt. No separate app, DAR executable, or Homebrew installation is required by users.

  • Handles ordinary full archives, encrypted archives, split sets and zero-padded slice names; cancellation reaches the native worker.
  • Restores to a temporary directory before installing files. Missing slices, corrupt data and invalid paths fail without installing a partial restore. Existing destination names are preserved and reported as conflicts.
  • Adds checksum-pinned universal static dependency builds to the test, beta and release workflows, with upstream license notices in Acknowledgements. See build details and support boundaries.

This is archive reading/extraction, not DAR creation or backup-chain restoration. Incremental references, deletion records and special files are not restored. Optional LZO, Argon2 and GPG support are not built; unsupported archives report an error. Progress is indeterminate. DAR Quick Look registration is intentionally omitted because slice access requires the app's folder prompt.

Fixture dependency: sarensw/MacPacker-TestArchives#9. Please merge that fixture PR before this one. This branch references its public PR commit so implementation and evidence can be reviewed together. The fixture password is deliberately public and protects only generated test data.

Verification

  • Full Swift package suite: 591 tests passed.
  • DAR-focused suite: 13 tests passed, including fixture hash comparisons, selected extraction, password retry/cancellation, missing first/middle/final slices, corruption, existing files, task cancellation, extension casing and padded-slice loading through ArchiveState.
  • Clean native dependency build for arm64 and x86_64.
  • Direct Release and Store Release builds passed with ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO; architecture guard passed for all 10 Direct and 5 Store Mach-O files. Intel was compiled/linked, not executed on this Apple silicon Mac.
  • Manually exercised the release app: browsed a plain DAR archive, extracted it through the toolbar and compared all four file hashes and its empty directory; opened an encrypted archive after an incorrect-password retry. Temporary review app removed afterwards.

No existing view layout changes. These real screenshots are cropped to exclude the toolbar containing the computer-use cursor:

Plain DAR browsing

Encrypted DAR after password entry

AI disclosure: OpenAI Codex was the primary author and performed the automated and app-UI verification described above. Submitted under my human user account.

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  • New Features
    • Added support for opening and extracting DAR archives, including password-protected and split archives.
    • DAR files are recognized as archives and can be opened directly in MacPacker.
    • Choose specific items to extract, or extract the full archive.

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Walkthrough

This PR adds DAR archive support to MacPacker. It builds pinned native dependencies, adds libdar-backed archive listing and extraction, registers DAR formats and file handling, and adds tests and documentation.

Changes

DAR archive support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build pinned native dependencies
.ci/*, .github/workflows/distribute-release.yml, scripts/build-dar.py, scripts/dar-dependencies.json, Modules/Package.swift, AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/DAR.md
Adds a build script for checksum-pinned dependencies on arm64 and x86_64, combines selected architectures into universal libraries, and connects the build to SwiftPM and CI. The documentation describes the build options and outputs.
Define the libdar bridge
Modules/Sources/CDar/*
Adds a C API and libdar implementation for archive listing, extraction, entry metadata, cancellation, password requests, and operation status.
Implement DAR loading and extraction
Modules/Sources/Core/Engine/ArchiveDarEngine.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/ArchiveLoader.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/DarEngineTests.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/TestArchives, docs/DAR.md
Adds slice validation, archive loading, password retries, cancellation, staged extraction, and path checks. Tests cover archive variants, selection, password handling, cancellation, and extraction failures.
Register DAR format in the app
Modules/Sources/Core/Engine/ArchiveEngineSelector.swift, Modules/Sources/Core/Formats/Catalog.json, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/ArchiveNamingTests.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/Base/ArchiveEngineSelectorDar.swift, Modules/Tests/CoreTests/PasswordTests.swift, MacPacker/Info*.plist, Config/products/macpacker.json
Adds DAR engine selection, format and split-volume definitions, macOS document registration, naming and loading tests, and a localized changelog entry.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ArchiveEngineSelector
  participant ArchiveDarEngine
  participant dar_bridge
  participant libdar
  participant Destination
  ArchiveEngineSelector->>ArchiveDarEngine: create DAR engine
  ArchiveDarEngine->>dar_bridge: read or extract archive
  dar_bridge->>libdar: list entries or extract selected entries
  libdar-->>dar_bridge: archive entries or operation result
  dar_bridge-->>ArchiveDarEngine: metadata and status
  ArchiveDarEngine->>Destination: install staged files after validation
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Suggested reviewers: sarensw

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 415f0

Merge the fixture PR before updating its pointer here. Until then, the change does not meet the repository’s required fixture-update order.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 415f0

Archive validation, temporary restoration and existing folder-access controls substantially limit the new exposure. The remaining concern is bounded to final file installation: cancellation and rollback do not cover that phase completely. No privilege escalation or extraction-path escape was established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Final installation lacks a complete cancellation and rollback boundary. Cancellation is checked before installation, but copying proceeds without further checks. Rollback tracks only roots whose copy completed, so a copy that creates output before throwing could leave an untracked partial root; interruption also has no recovery record in this installer. Staging therefore bounds native restore failures but does not establish failure-atomic final installation.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A supplied DAR archive reaches native parsing when the user opens it and filesystem restoration when extraction is requested. Parsing shares the application's process and effective filesystem authority; staging separates native restore output from final destination installation but is not a process-isolation boundary. No separate service or tenant exposure is evidenced.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The observed caller brackets source reads and native extraction with existing security-scoped access, and separately brackets destination installation. That helper activates bookmarks when available and otherwise relies on ambient or entitlement authority; it is not an independent authorization-denial check. DAR opening retains folder approval rather than replacing it.
  • observed — Password retries reopen the archive using the existing resolver. The engine explicitly does not persist passwords, and the native boundary receives the password for the current operation.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Native cancellation is coordinated through the operation mutex and worker-thread handle, and pending cancellation is cleared before worker reuse. Final Swift copying lies outside this native cancellation mechanism. Selected-item extraction also uses an existing outer temporary directory, limiting direct destination exposure compared with whole-archive installation.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define an explicit installation commit boundary and align cancellation reporting with it. If failure-atomic output is required, track ownership of in-progress targets and provide cleanup or recovery that preserves pre-existing destination content; validate this contract under copy failure, interruption and repeated extraction.
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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 11.84% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 76 functions across 13 files. (10 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: opening and extracting DAR archives.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #276 requests a Mac GUI for DAR archives. This PR adds DAR format registration, listing, split-volume handling, password support, and whole-archive and selected-item extraction through MacPacker…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The native libdar bridge, pinned dependency build and release integration, documentation, changelog, and tests support the DAR archive feature requested by issue #276. The PR description also defines …
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  • .ci/build-dar.sh
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  • AGENTS.md
  • CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Config/products/macpacker.json
  • MacPacker/Features/Acknowledgements/Acknowledgements.plist
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  • MacPacker/Info_Store.plist
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  • Modules/Sources/CDar/dar_bridge.cpp
  • Modules/Sources/CDar/include/dar_bridge.h
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  • Modules/Sources/Core/Engine/ArchiveEngineSelector.swift
  • Modules/Sources/Core/Formats/Catalog.json
  • Modules/Tests/CoreTests/ArchiveNamingTests.swift
  • Modules/Tests/CoreTests/Base/ArchiveEngineSelectorDar.swift
  • Modules/Tests/CoreTests/DarEngineTests.swift
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Merge the fixture PR before updating this pointer.

This commit is the head of MacPacker-TestArchives PR #9, which is still open. (github.com) The pointer therefore depends on an unmerged fixture change. Merge PR #9 first, then update the pointer to the merged commit.

As per coding guidelines: “PR the archive to MacPacker-TestArchives, wait for merge, bump the submodule pointer here, then the fix.”

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The TestArchives submodule pointer targets an unmerged fixture change; after PR
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