OpenTyrian (classic) RPM package

[dreamertan]

Hi, everyone; this is my first post on forum, so let me start by thanking devs for working on and maintaining this wonderful game I was quite happy to see how easy it is to compile and test run it, great job on maintenance part!

I am linux (currently fedora) user, so before trying to compile, my first thought was: it's probably in repositories already... and I was quite surprised, that it was missing!

so I worked a little bit and took first step to repair that

here you can find few files, that are required for proper linux packaging of tyrian (updated icons in different sizes according to freedesktop specification, updated .desktop file, brand new manual page, shell wrapper):
dl.getdropbox.com/u/420606/tyrian/linux.tar.gz
I probably should have send you this as patch, but I found no info on you patch policy.

Inside you will find also rpm specfile, which is used to generate rpm package which, with a little bit of work, could be included in rpm repositories (nonfree, most probably - like rpmfusion.org/).

This specfile will generate package with tyrian 2.1 data files bundled inside - for this purpose I cleaned data files a little bit; you can find contents of bundled data here:
dl.getdropbox.com/u/420606/tyrian/tyrian-data.tar.gz

And grand finale; here is generated rpm package (32bit):
dl.getdropbox.com/u/420606/tyrian/opentyrian-2.1-1.i586.rpm
So if you are using rpm-based linux distro, you can install this file instead of manually checkouting from repo, compiling and downloading data files.

Devs, can you look at this and make fast review? there are still some issues that has to be resolved:
1) maybe bundlind data is not such a good idea, and splitting package into opentyrian and tyrian-data would be better
2) do you have any release schedule? where can I find current version of opentyrian? I need this to make packages, that can be easily upgraded
3) do you have any official changelog? I found nothing besides commit logs
4) please take a look at manpage - I copied necessary info from README and tyrian -help; but maybe I missed something (I missed --data parameter, because I don't know how tyrian behaves when someone passed --data parameter twice)
5) can you include linux dir from linux.tar.gz in opentyrian's repository? It would make maintaining package a lot easier for me!
6) if there will be enough positive feedback I'll talk to rpmfusion ppl about including this in fedora repo

[Mindless]

Oct 20, 2009 0:55:21 GMT dreamertan said:

shell wrapper

That shouldn't be necessary, Linux builds of OpenTyrian check /usr/share/opentyrian/data/ by default, so just put the data there, and no script is necessary.

Oct 20, 2009 0:55:21 GMT dreamertan said:

I probably should have send you this as patch, but I found no info on you patch policy.

There isn't one; we're pretty laid back.

Oct 20, 2009 0:55:21 GMT dreamertan said:

1) maybe bundlind data is not such a good idea, and splitting package into opentyrian and tyrian-data would be better

Splitting the package has good and bad points. On the good side, upgrading only requires redownloading the OpenTyrian portion, not the data files; and you can include the proper licenses with the separate packages. On the bad side, two packages is more complex than one.

Oct 20, 2009 0:55:21 GMT dreamertan said:

2) do you have any release schedule? where can I find current version of opentyrian? I need this to make packages, that can be easily upgraded

We haven't made any official releases yet, so we don't have a schedule. We're semi-planning an official release in the near future, but don't hold your breath.

Oct 20, 2009 0:55:21 GMT dreamertan said:

3) do you have any official changelog? I found nothing besides commit logs

Since we haven't had any official releases, there hasn't been a need for a changelog yet. This allows us be lazy.

Oct 20, 2009 0:55:21 GMT dreamertan said:

4) please take a look at manpage - I copied necessary info from README and tyrian -help; but maybe I missed something (I missed --data parameter, because I don't know how tyrian behaves when someone passed --data parameter twice)

The network parameters have changed within the last week, so you'll need to update that. If passed multiple times, pretty much all the parameters will simply overwrite the previous values, --data included.

Oct 20, 2009 0:55:21 GMT dreamertan said:

5) can you include linux dir from linux.tar.gz in opentyrian's repository? It would make maintaining package a lot easier for me!

I'll look into it.

Oct 20, 2009 0:55:21 GMT dreamertan said:

6) if there will be enough positive feedback I'll talk to rpmfusion ppl about including this in fedora repo

Sounds good to me.

[dreamertan]

Oct 20, 2009 3:18:50 GMT Mindless said:

Linux builds of OpenTyrian check /usr/share/opentyrian/data/ by default, so just put the data there, and no script is necessary.

done

Oct 20, 2009 3:18:50 GMT Mindless said:

(about patch policy) There isn't one; we're pretty laid back.

oh, I see so I removed linux.tar.gz and moved it's content to private repo clone
changes that I did since yesterday:
code.google.com/r/dreamertan-opentyrian/source/list

I don't know mercurial (I know git a little, though), but I guess you should have no problems with merging changes from my clone.

Oct 20, 2009 3:18:50 GMT Mindless said:

Splitting the package has good and bad points. On the good side, upgrading only requires redownloading the OpenTyrian portion, not the data files; and you can include the proper licenses with the separate packages. On the bad side, two packages is more complex than one.

I decided that for the moment, I will create one package (distribution will be easier); when package will be ready to include to rpmfusion, we will split them - this way updates will be smaller and possible opentyrian-enhanced could reuse same package.

Oct 20, 2009 3:18:50 GMT Mindless said:

We haven't made any official releases yet, so we don't have a schedule. We're semi-planning an official release in the near future, but don't hold your breath.
Since we haven't had any official releases, there hasn't been a need for a changelog yet. This allows us be lazy.

Laziness is mother of invention and source of all progress in civilization.

I bumped version to 0.1 and will update only release numbers until something exceptional will happen

Oct 20, 2009 3:18:50 GMT Mindless said:

The network parameters have changed within the last week, so you'll need to update that. If passed multiple times, pretty much all the parameters will simply overwrite the previous values, --data included.

I updated man page accordingly.

newer package release (please remove last one, before installing this - this is because version was changed to 0.1);
dl.getdropbox.com/u/420606/tyrian/opentyrian-0.1-2.i586.rpm

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edit
I just found out, that I can't link outside of google in clone repository page; any chance of adding me to opentyrian project, so I could upload last builds to "downloads" page?

[Mindless]

Oct 20, 2009 19:11:59 GMT dreamertan said:

I bumped version to 0.1 and will update only release numbers until something exceptional will happen

Since we haven't actually made a 0.1 release, I don't think you can really call it that yet...

Oct 20, 2009 19:11:59 GMT dreamertan said:

Oct 20, 2009 3:18:50 GMT Mindless said:

The network parameters have changed within the last week, so you'll need to update that. If passed multiple times, pretty much all the parameters will simply overwrite the previous values, --data included.

I updated man page accordingly.

Could the man page be included in the repo as text and gzipped when the package is built? Binary data doesn't lend itself well to version control.

Oct 20, 2009 19:11:59 GMT dreamertan said:

I just found out, that I can't link outside of google in clone repository page; any chance of adding me to opentyrian project, so I could upload last builds to "downloads" page?

We aren't adding any official downloads just yet.

[dreamertan]

mindless said:

Since we haven't actually made a 0.1 release, I don't think you can really call it that yet...

I bumped it down then and keep version at 0 and change only rebuild numbers (so now it's 0-4)

mindless said:

Could the man page be included in the repo as text and gzipped when the package is built?

done (I wasn't aware, that vim is automatically gzipping/unzipping man pages... hmm)

mindless said:

We aren't adding any official downloads just yet.

Shame...
latest rpm (version will be consistent from now on): dl.getdropbox.com/u/420606/tyrian/opentyrian-0-4.i586.rpm

[Mindless]

Everything except the spec file (since it's a distro-specific build file) has been patched into the code repo.
I used different icon sizes and fixed a typo in the man page, otherwise it should be the same.