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RE: [ITP] p7zip
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:23:02 +0100
- Subject: RE: [ITP] p7zip
- References: <4674C4F4.7030904@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
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
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