[ITP] p7zip

[Dave Korn]

On 17 June 2007 06:22, Charles Wilson wrote:

> 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio in its native
> compression mode (LZMA).  

> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip-4.47-1.tar.bz2

  Packaging's a bit bizarre.

1.  Executables in a package-specific subdir of /usr/lib, wrapper scripts in
/usr/bin.  Odd but not actually incorrect.

2.  Empty 'Codecs' subdir of /usr/lib/p7zip present in source build, missing
from binary package.  Dunno if this matters.

3.  All the docs under /usr/share/doc/p7zip-4.47 don't exist, they are just
symlinks to originals in the not-necessarily-installed source package, e.g:

lrwxrwxrwx cwilson/None       0 2007-06-17 05:58
usr/share/doc/p7zip-4.47/DOCS/7zC.txt ->
/usr/src/p7zip/p7zip-4.47-1/src/p7zip_4.47/DOCS/7zC.txt

  This is clearly not going to work for most people!

> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip-4.47-1-src.tar.bz2

  The cygport install stage warns:

*** Warning: Cygwin README is missing

and the package stage warns:

*** Warning: setup.hint is missing

  Also, the install stage generates and the package stage packages /two/ docs
directories, /usr/share/doc/p7zip/ and /usr/share/doc/p7zip-4.47/, which
doesn't match the binary package you supplied, which only has the latter
directory, containing all the contents of both.

> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/p7zip.hint

  Looks good.

  +1 when the above warts get resolved.

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....