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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: HLDS discussion
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 23:09:19
Message-Id: 200308061909.18250.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] HLDS discussion by Stuart Herbert
1 On Wednesday 06 August 2003 05:50, Stuart Herbert wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 4:38 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > i maintain them ... and if you look at the date on the d ebuild you'll
4 > > find it was in portage a few hours after d was released ;)
5 >
6 > d's an experimental patch. Why is it the only version in portage?
7
8 ive been outta the hlds loop for almost a year now ... hopefully ill be able
9 to get my ns server up again in a few weeks :)
10 i only ever had the 3.1.1.1 ebuilds in portage because i saw they fixed
11 exploits ...
12
13 > > as for adding back in older versions, ill look into it ...
14 >
15 > Seems a shame to have an ebuild only for a version that is well-known as
16 > broken ...
17
18 yep, 3.1.1.0, 3.1.1.1, and 3.1.1.1d are now in portage
19
20 > Especially as your ebuild for NS-2 installs the 3.1.1.0c version of NS, and
21 > (unless I've missed it in the ebuild) doesn't include the patch to make
22 > NS-2 run on 3.1.1.1d.
23
24 URL for said patch ? :)
25
26 > > i'm still trying to make hlds work properly on 1.0/1.2/1.4 boxes ...
27 > > glibc seems to cause issues of course :/
28 >
29 > libs-compat fixes that for me just fine, at least with 3.1.1.0c + boffix.
30
31 URL for boffix ? ;)
32 and did you mean 3.1.1.0 ? or 3.1.1.1c ?
33
34 > I also noticed that Metamod is built from source. HLDS (which is a C++
35 > program) is very sensitive to which version of GCC is used to build Metamod
36 > (and Metamods), and most people find it seg faults most of the time when
37 > compiled from source. It might be worth adding an ebuild for the binary
38 > release of Metamod - or talk to Will Day (metamod's author) to discuss
39 > which GCC & CXXFLAGS are likely to bring the most success.
40
41 yeah, i added 1.16.2 today which defaults to binary install unless user has
42 USE=src ... oddly it worked for me just fine ... or i could just be smokin
43 crack ...
44
45 > I'd also be very interested in seeing HLDS support the +vhosts scheme we've
46 > been discussing about webapps.
47
48 i havent been following webapps so i have no idea what you're refering to ...
49 but my first thought is 'what the hell does webapps/vhosts have to do with
50 hlds ?' ... only relation that pops into my head is hlstat support ...
51
52 -mike