I maintain the larn (and some other) roguelike game package and
recently submitted a new version I accidentally uploaded an old
revision, so must redo (actually I do have a working version, but there
are more issues now.) However, I switched from an unofficial port (
https://github.com/Nebula-Mechanica/larn-linux/ ) to the official source
code ( https://github.com/atsb/RL_M .)
The unofficial version has a poorly-installed wrapper script (they
don't link it to /usr/games/larn... the user just has to find and run
larn.sh, not larn binary, though they can do that too) which I no longer
use, so we may no longer need the larn-fixups.patch someone on SBo team
wrote and added, or it will be different, in ways I don't know yet. The
official code doesn't even 'make install,' and has a data directory, but
no wrapper script linked to in /usr/games to go from there to that
directory.
I wrote my own wrapper script (maybe not that great either) for the
official code, but it seems the earlier, unofficial one uses some
environment variables that may make things easier.
So, could some people more experienced with make, wrapper scripts,
running & patching games with all these environment variables, etc.,
take a look at the unofficial and/or official, and my new version, and
suggest what to do next for a wrapper and/or update larn-fixups.patch
(if even needed now)? My new version is
http://davidchmelik.com/homepage/math/slackbuilds/games/larn.tar.gz ,
which builds & runs fine for me, and if anyone at SBo is willing to any
of that with my new update, for an official update in SBo, that's fine
with me (just preferably let me know so I download any changes.)
I'm just not sure what to do changing from the unofficial to
official version, both of which seem to have some advantages and
disadvantages I'm not used to dealing with.
Also, should I set gid:uid games:games in all my game configure
scripts (and maybe similar for graphics/academic/library software) for
security?
Also, what do people think of that guy who submits scripts to SBo
(meikamp?) but says that, with the addition of GPL not having to be
included, their scripts are (optionally) under GPL? Then they're
shorter, but I'm not sure it really works with GPL, though I'd probably
prefer to do it this way.
D
http://www.cwu.edu/~melikd/
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