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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: NEW: archivers/7zip
To:
ed@groovyexpress.com
Cc:
George Koehler <kernigh@gmail.com>, "Anthony J. Bentley" <bentley@openbsd.org>, ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 9 Sep 2026 14:42:59 +0100

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On 2026/09/08 13:58, ed@groovyexpress.com wrote:
> Updated version of my port that now includes:
> - rar flavor for rar support
> - pledge patches
> - all 7zip binaries (7z 7za 7zr 7zz 7zCon.sfx)
> - man page and html documentation
> 
> The port update was being made before George's updated version so it
> won't be the same. The main difference is building a rar version
> rather then splitting out the rar code. The man page, html
> documentation, and pledge patches are used from the updated port
> (thanks).

I do prefer gkoehler's approach with the optional subpackage rather
than a flavour.

> The pledge patches had to be slightly modified to include <cstdlib>
> since I kept getting compilation errors about exit() and to include
> 'tty' pledge for password prompts when testing, listing, extracting
> or creating archives. 7zip is also patched to not echo passwords as
> p7zip would.
> 
> Only tested the main flavor on sparc64.