[Bug-freedink] Re: FreeDink ArchLinux package

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Versioning by date sounds good for the '-git' package indeed.

I'm currently checking how/if we can redistribute the game data; after
which the release should roll out :)

-- 
Sylvain

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:16:46AM +0300, Ville Petteri Tolonen wrote:
> 
> > I see you contributed a freedink-git package to ArchLinux.  Nice! I
> > didn't expect a package until there's a proper release (coming soon)
> > :)
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a big fan of Dink Smallwood (and Arch Linux) and appreciate your work
> very much. The game seemed to run fine on my desktop machine with freedink,
> so I thought it would be a good idea to make a pkgbuild for it (and since
> it's so
> easy to make packages for arch linux). I'm looking forward to a proper
> release.
> 
> >
> > I have a few suggestions/questions:
> >
> >> pkgver=20080701
> >
> > I use a <compat>.<date> naming scheme. The current version is
> > 1.08.20080728. I might worth following that, though as it's a '-git'
> > package the date may be enough.
> >
> 
> All the other "-git" packages in the Arch user repository are versioned with
> date,
> the same way I did. If  I used your version numbering, I would have to do a
> lot of
> updates, where I would only change the version number. I hope it's ok for
> me to
> stick with this version numbering until you get that first proper release
> ready.
> 
> >
> >> arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
> >
> > Is it because ArchLinux doesn't support other platforms?  FreeDink is
> > meant to run on other architectures.
> >
> 
> In the beginning arch was an i686-only distro, but naturally when 64-bit
> platforms
> became more popular, they made a x86_64-version of the distribution. The
> answer
> to your question is therefore: Yes, it's because Arch linux doesn't support
> other
> architectures than those.
> 
> >
> >>    rm $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/dink
> >>    rm $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/dinkedit
> >>    ln -s /usr/bin/freedink $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/dink
> >>    ln -s /usr/bin/freedinkedit $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/dinkedit
> >
> > Oops! I can see why you're doing that - this is fixed :)
> >
> 
> Ok. thanks for fixing it. I will remove those from the pkgbuild-script.
> 
> >
> > Please contact me about any problem you stumble upon in FreeDink.
> >
> 
> Thanks, I will.
> 
> 
> - Petteri -