Re: [gentoo-dev] Enemy Territory ebuild

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:31, Corvus Corax wrote:
> Am Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:30:36 -0400
> schrieb Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>:
>
> > I want to ask the opinion of everyone.  I updated Enemy-Territory
> > yesterday to close two bugs.  In doing so, I made the decision to make
> > the newest version of Enemy Territory use the new full download.  I have
> > had requests from people to have the full download, rather than the
> > original download + patches, as the ebuild.
> >
> > Well, I am thinking of breaking up the enemy-territory ebuilds into two
> > ebuilds.  There would be an enemy-territory ebuild, which would use the
> > original download + patches (and therefore be dial-up friendly) and the
> > enemy-territory-full ebuild, which would always download and install the
> > complete game from the most recent version.  This should satisfy both
> > camps and also make the ebuild a bit more dial-up friendly.
> >
> > Thoughts? Opinions? Flames?
> >
> > --
> > Chris Gianelloni
> > Developer, Gentoo Linux
> > Games Team
> >
> > Is your power animal a penguin?
> >
>
> I'd say, pack it into one ebuild and make it intelligent, some check like
> "if an old tar.gz is already installed, download just the needed patches and patch,
> but if it has to be downloaded anyway, download the newer "full" installation"
> that saves the users from having to download both,
> for example when installing the original .56 yesterday
> and upgrading from .56 to .56-r1 today (grrrrr)

First off, if you notice, the only change is in installation.  The
actual end result is the same.  I really should *not* have bumped the
revision on the package, since the only changes are to the installation
packaging and not to the final game.  To be honest, I shouldn't have
bothered to change anything, since ours was working fine.  There are
simply some people out there who see that there is a new version of
something and immediately file bugs for them without researching the
actual changes.  I just went and completed the bug without looking into
it too heavily.  Once I started getting people complaining about the
changes to the ebuild (downloading the new full version and not
patching), I looked into it more closely and saw that the ONLY change
was to the makeself archive itself and not to the actual game.

At this point, I don't really know what I should do.  Should I simply
leave things how they are and not worry about it at all until a new
revision of the game is released?  Should I mask the new ebuild?  Remove
the old?

I am inclined to just leave things as they are now saying "What's done
is done" and just being glad that we even have this game in portage
still.

I also think I'm going to ignore ANY bug which has the name TTimo posted
in it... ;p

(For the humor impaired, that last part was a joke pointing back to the
entire licensing fiasco, which really did not exist since TTimo is not
actually an id Software employee.)

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

Is your power animal a penguin?