Bug 259424

Summary: archivers/p7zip manual page refers to the wrong path for documentation
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs>
Status: Closed Overcome By Events    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: makc, tatsuki_makino
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
URL: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=7z&sektion=1manpath=Ports#HTML_Documentation

Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-10-25 00:40:41 UTC
% man 7z
% file /usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/index.htm
/usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/index.htm: cannot open `/usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/index.htm' (No such file or directory)
% pkg info --list p7zip | grep index.htm
        /usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/cmdline/commands/index.htm
        /usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/cmdline/index.htm
        /usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/cmdline/switches/index.htm
        /usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/fm/index.htm
        /usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/fm/plugins/7-zip/index.htm
        /usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/fm/plugins/index.htm
        /usr/local/share/doc/p7zip/MANUAL/general/index.htm
%
Comment 1 Tatsuki Makino 2021-12-13 04:20:08 UTC
p7zip is marked DEPRECATED, and EXPIRATION_DATE is 2022-01-01.
However, there is a new fork of it.

The new fork: https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip
See also: https://www.7-zip.org/links.html
Comment 2 Chris Hutchinson 2021-12-13 06:58:48 UTC
There's also effectively a replacement in:
archivers/7-zip/

HTH
Comment 3 Max Brazhnikov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-05-25 08:03:59 UTC
archivers/p7zip has been superseded by archivers/7-zip.