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....
