[Bug-freedink] Re: FreeDink ArchLinux package

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi Petteri,


Some news about GNU FreeDink.


Seth A. Robinson (from RTsoft) agreed to release most of the game data
under the zlib license!

The files that are not included are non-free sounds that RTsoft didn't
own. We're trying to replace them: http://www.freedink.org/doc/sounds/


I started some packaging effort in Debian and Fedora and I'm trying to
see what distros need before I make a proper release.

Currently I prepare 3 separate packages:
- freedink - game engine
- dink-data - game data
- dfarc - front-end

I try to advertise the need for free sound replacement in 'dink-data'.


Do you want to prepare the ArchLinux package?

Cheers,

-- 
Sylvain


On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:44:32AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Versioning by date sounds good for the '-git' package indeed.
> 
> I'm currently checking how/if we can redistribute the game data; after
> which the release should roll out :)
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:16:46AM +0300, Ville Petteri Tolonen wrote:
> > 
> > > I see you contributed a freedink-git package to ArchLinux.  Nice! I
> > > didn't expect a package until there's a proper release (coming soon)
> > > :)
> > >
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am a big fan of Dink Smallwood (and Arch Linux) and appreciate your work
> > very much. The game seemed to run fine on my desktop machine with freedink,
> > so I thought it would be a good idea to make a pkgbuild for it (and since
> > it's so
> > easy to make packages for arch linux). I'm looking forward to a proper
> > release.
> > 
> > >
> > > I have a few suggestions/questions:
> > >
> > >> pkgver=20080701
> > >
> > > I use a <compat>.<date> naming scheme. The current version is
> > > 1.08.20080728. I might worth following that, though as it's a '-git'
> > > package the date may be enough.
> > >
> > 
> > All the other "-git" packages in the Arch user repository are versioned with
> > date,
> > the same way I did. If  I used your version numbering, I would have to do a
> > lot of
> > updates, where I would only change the version number. I hope it's ok for
> > me to
> > stick with this version numbering until you get that first proper release
> > ready.
> > 
> > >
> > >> arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
> > >
> > > Is it because ArchLinux doesn't support other platforms?  FreeDink is
> > > meant to run on other architectures.
> > >
> > 
> > In the beginning arch was an i686-only distro, but naturally when 64-bit
> > platforms
> > became more popular, they made a x86_64-version of the distribution. The
> > answer
> > to your question is therefore: Yes, it's because Arch linux doesn't support
> > other
> > architectures than those.
> > 
> > >
> > >>    rm $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/dink
> > >>    rm $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/dinkedit
> > >>    ln -s /usr/bin/freedink $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/dink
> > >>    ln -s /usr/bin/freedinkedit $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/dinkedit
> > >
> > > Oops! I can see why you're doing that - this is fixed :)
> > >
> > 
> > Ok. thanks for fixing it. I will remove those from the pkgbuild-script.
> > 
> > >
> > > Please contact me about any problem you stumble upon in FreeDink.
> > >
> > 
> > Thanks, I will.
> > 
> > 
> > - Petteri -