Fedora Games SIG August 2011

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Doom engines
by Rahul Sundaram 02 Oct '11

02 Oct '11

Hi Vavoom has already been packaged for a long time in Fedora and uses autodownloader for enabling users to use the shareware data easily. I have recently packaged a alternative Doom engine called Chocolate Doom [2] which is a more conservative port that aims to be more compatible with mods. I could package other Doom engines out there including odamex[2], some of them unique. It doesn't make much sense to duplicate the autodownloader related files. Debian has some guidelines [3] What would be the best way to handle this? References: 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730851 2. http://odamex.net/ 3. http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/doom-packaging/ Rahul

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Freedoom and Freedoom-freedm 0.7 update
by Rahul Sundaram 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hi I have built and pushed the updated for Rawhide and Fedora 16 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/freedoom-0.7-1.fc16 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/freedoom-freedm-0.7-1.fc16 I couldn't get the latest snapshot to build under Koji. I didn't have time to debug. So if anyone wants to take a look, feel free to http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/packages/freedoom-0.7-1.20110826git613a59.… I have written to upstream asking for 0.8 release anyway Rahul

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Fwd: Re: freedoom 0.8 release?
by Rahul Sundaram 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Hi If anyone has thoughts on how to proceed, let me know Rahul -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: freedoom 0.8 release? Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:30:30 -0700 From: Mike Swanson To: Rahul Sundaram CC: Simon Howard, RjY , catoptromancy On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > I was thinking of pulling in the latest git snapshot for Fedora and > built it today. I have the following wad files > > /usr/share/doom/doom.wad > /usr/share/doom/doom2.wad > /usr/share/doom/freedm.wad > /usr/share/doom/freedoom.wad > /usr/share/doom/freedoom_levels.wad > /usr/share/doom/freedoom_sounds.wad > /usr/share/doom/freedoom_sprites.wad > /usr/share/doom/freedoom_textures.wad > > Currently in Fedora, we have two different packages, freedoom and > freedoom-dm and I am wondering how I should proceed? What's the diff > between doom.wad and doom2.wad I could have the latest freedoom > obsolete freedoom-dm and move forward. Let me know what the > recommended way of packaging these is. The first three files are IWADs; files that contain the complete data for a Doom engine to run. Effectively you can ignore the freedoom*.wad files for packaging, as they all only contain patch data (PWADs). doom.wad contains resources to support "The Ultimate Doom", the retail version of Doom 1. doom2.wad contains the resources to support Doom II and Final Doom, which the majority of PWADs (new levels, for example) require. freedm.wad is the death-match only IWAD, it contains the same resources as doom2.wad except for a different level set. Personally I don't have a recommended way of packaging, although Debian (sorry, I'm a Debian user :P) seems to rename our doom2.wad to "freedoom.wad" (unrelated to the PWAD built from the source tree), presumably to avoid a conflict with id Software's Doom II. For compatibility purposes, our IWADs are named the same as the commercial games, but wanting both Doom and Freedoom installed system-wide would result in conflicting file names.

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orphaning / looking for new owner for monkey-bubble
by Hans de Goede 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Hi, I've been thinking about orphaning monkey-bubble for a while now, mostly because it is dead upstream and it is using various obsolete gnome technologies (esound, libgnomeui, bonobo). Yesterday it came to my attention that monkey-bubble also contains at least 1 sound sample which we should not be re-distributing, as well as various sound samples from unclear origin. This has helped me make up my mind, and unless someone else jumps in to take it over (and fix the sound sample situation) I'm going to orphan it. So anyone want to take over monkey-bubble? Regards, Hans

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Fedora Games SIG August 2011