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Hello, everyone. |
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Over half a year has passed since Council decided upon the fate of |
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games in Gentoo. Over that period, the games team has neither showed |
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any will to respect the Council decisions, nor officially appealed to |
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them. |
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For this reason, the QA team would like to officially start supporting |
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the migration of ebuilds out of games.eclass. Any developer wishing to |
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help is more than welcome to take any games.eclass ebuild, bump its |
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revision and remove the games.eclass-specific bits from it. Updating to |
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EAPI 6 would also be welcome. A short update guide is provided at |
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the end of mail. |
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Please note that since this is considered a matter of QA action with |
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a long waiting period, no explicit approval from games team is |
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necessary to commit the conversion, nor games team is allowed to reject |
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or revert such commits as long as they are valid. |
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If you need any help doing that and the games team refuses to provide |
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it, please do not hesitate to contact me or ask in #gentoo-qa. If you |
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are interested in helping out with games, feel free to join games team |
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since it still lacks new members. |
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Thank you for all the help. |
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Migration notes |
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TL;DR: nothing special required, remove games.eclass and all |
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unnecessary games.eclass customization, and follow upstream. Make sure |
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not to break stuff. |
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The Council decisions can be summarized the following way: |
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1. The 'games' group, formerly used to control access to games, must |
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not be used. Games should be executable for all users like any other |
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program [1]. |
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1a. For score files and similar writable shared data, the 'gamestat' |
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group (enewgroup gamestat 36) can be used. The old 'games' group is not |
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appropriate since sysadmins were expected to add users to it which |
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defeated its purpose. |
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2. Gentoo path customization for games must be removed and regular |
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install locations (without explicit control via GAMES_* variables) |
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should be used [2]: |
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2a. /usr/games and /etc/games directories are forbidden, |
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2b. /usr/share/games can be used for data if that directory is used |
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upstream, |
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2c. /var/games can be used for shared writable data. |
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This is mostly achieved through removing games.eclass inherit, |
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customization specific to it and replacing the helpers with generic PMS |
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helpers (e.g. egamesconf -> econf, dogamesbin -> dobin). |
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The 'gamesowners', 'gamesperms', 'prepgamesdirs' calls should be |
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removed altogether. |
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In some cases it will also be beneficial to remove patching added to |
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support non-standard locations. |
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Please remember to always rev-bump and not edit in place, to ensure |
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proper upgrade. When dealing with dependencies, please make sure to |
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check if the package does not rely on dependency installing data in |
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a specific location. If that is the case, then you need to use |
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appropriate >= deps to ensure clean upgrade. |
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If you would like to report bugs requesting games.eclass removal, |
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please make them block the tracker [3]. |
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[1]:https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151011-summary.txt |
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[2]:https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151213-summary.txt |
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[3]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574082 |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny (on behalf of QA team) |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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