RFC: Method for packaging game data (was Re: Non-commercial redistributable game data)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 23.05.2010 14:06, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> I've been looking at uqm today to see how we could do this.  I did come
> up with one method that does work (at least in Fedora 13), though it
> will be a bit of a pain for autodownloader.  For uqm, it looks something
> like this:
> 
> uqm is in Fedora
> autodownloader is in Fedora
> uqm-content is in RPM Fusion
> 
> Remove Requires: autodownloader from uqm
> Add Requires: uqm(data) to uqm
> Add Provides: uqm(data) to autodownloader
> Add Provides: uqm(data) to uqm-content
> 
> When installing uqm, if RPM Fusion isn't enabled, autodownloader gets
> downloaded and installed, and then the game data gets downloaded the
> first time uqm is run.  If RPM Fusion is enabled, yum will prefer
> uqm-content, which mean uqm will run the first time without needing to
> download anything.
> 
> This should consistently work because, in the newer yum versions, one of
> the tests for choosing which package to install as a dependency is to
> compare how many letters match (i.e. uqm and uqm-content both start with
> uqm, while autodownloader doesn't, so uqm-content would be preferred
> over autodownloader). [...]

Sounds fragile to me. I'd ask the main yum guys for their option before
going that route further.

Cu
knurd