Re: port of game-data-packager to Fedora

Le mardi 3 novembre 2015, 14:49:47 Hans de Goede a écrit : > >> I'm now running it thourgh virtualbox, maintenance will be more bearable >> when I manage to run it in a thin container with full X/OpenGl support. >> (systemd-nspawn ?) > > Ok, so you do plan to maintain it, that would be great as we > are currently having a shortage of active packagers for rpmfusion. Yes I can maintain this one package. I don't like the "summer of code" mindset of releasing something half done & then disapear. I'm also interrested into Fedora users contributing details of games(/versions) missing.

>> The generated .rpm always go to ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ >> where the default is $(pwd) on Debian; I didn't found a simple >> way to overide this, but maybe that's not desired and >> it's better to remove the "--destination" option. > > You can pass: > > --define "_rpmdir $(pwd)" > > to rpmbuild to use the cwd as output dir, the rpms will then be written > to $(pwd/noarch I do not believe there is a way to get rid of the "noarch" > part of the path. It's a bit ugly, but --define "_rpmdir /tmp" might be of use if user want to install package right away without keeping the rpm. >> Having a option not to compressing 2GB rpm's that'll be used locally >> or rpm's that are zipfile + little else (like Quake .pk? archives) would >> be nice too. > > Erm, I'm pretty sure you can do that too, but I do not know how. I found what I needed : "%define _binary_payload w0.gzdio" & "%define _binary_payload w1.gzdio" . >> All scummvm & z_code games (Zork, H2G2) should already work as-is. >> >> For the other games, the assets are located where the Debian-packaged >> engines except those, thus mostly in /usr/share/games/<something> >> >> See "grep usr/share/games data/*.yaml". >> >> So each engine needs to be reviewed. > > Yeah, we typically put game-data under /usr/share/foo rather then > /usr/share/games/foo. But for things like scummvm you likely also > provide a .desktop for the game, passing in the right options to > start the game ? Then using /usr/share/games should be fine. Yes, indeed when a .desktop file is also generated, the assets can go anywhere; residualvm is also already ok. >>>> Two interresting dependencies of G-D-P I didn't found in rpmfusion >>>> are innoextract & lgogdownloader; when installed a setup....exe >>>> sold by GOG.com can be automaticaly downloaded & repacked as a .rpm >>> >>> That is cool, what are the licenses of these 2 utilities ? >> >> Both are in Debian/main, >> - innoextract is MIT licensed & also has it's own rpm repository >> - lgogdowloader is 'What The F**k' licensed (=~MIT) >> >> innoextract is now pretty much done, >> but lgogdownloader can break anyday when GOG.com changes it's API; >> so this needs more frequent updates like youtube-dl . > > Ok, so license wise both can go to Fedora proper rather then rpmfusion. > > innoextract definitely should go to Fedora proper. > lgogdownloader is more interesting. Which also makes me wonder about > game-data-packager itself. I really do not see any reason for them not to > be in Fedora proper, but I must admit it sort of a gray area. Both of these utilities are just a single C++ binary built with cmake + boost; so it should have been easy to build those by hand, but Fedora is lacking two dependecies: rhash & htmlcxx . So this is now 4 packages that are needed :-( I found a recipe here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i-GMQKVEu58J:xmodulo... I think I can handle a noarch python package, but when it comes to C++ packages that needs extra versioned libraries that gets a bit more difficult to handle. So for now I'll just use/suggest the innoextract package provided by upstream.

> I think you may want to mail Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com&gt; > about how acceptable both of them are for Fedora. He is the go to > persons for questions like these, and any answer he gives is the > definitive answer. lgogdownloader can also be used to download pay-per-view indie movies about My Little Pony fans and other things... http://www.gog.com/movie/bronies_the_extremely_unexpected_adult_fans_of_m... I wouldn't fight over inclusion of this or G-D-P in Debian main, so here also I won't either. I already got 2 relevant answers here before posting to rpmfusion ML: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/games/2015-November/thread.html