Debian packages of vs 0.5.1beta

[almatic]

Hi,

The package vegastrike_0.5.1.beta1-2_i386.deb tries to create a file /usr/bin/replace, which conflicts with the same name mysql string replacement tool.
Generally I think that game files should go to /usr/games/ and the game data to /usr/share/games/<game name> because that's the path for games provided in debian (it is also included in $PATH).

Keep up the good work

[klauss]

Hm... will try to fix for the next release.

[ace123]

I think "replace" is a simplified version of "sed" for binary files, used just for the mac build process to fix hardcoded paths.

I would suggest limiting the binaries shipped to ones immediately useful to modders or players, or things that anyone outside the developer team would need.

Looking through the deb package, here are the four programs I would suggest keeping:
mesher vegaserver vegastrike vssetup

Some of the other utilities like objconv/*2xml might be useful to modders, but please put them in usr/bin, not usr/objconv! (and they lost +x permission) This must be possible because the compiled binaries weren't in bin/ either...

If you want to include all the binaries, maybe we could put them in /usr/share, out of the system path?

I googled and found a way to edit debian packages easily, so I was able to get it to install by removing replace:

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dpkg-deb –extract mypackage.deb foobar
dpkg-deb -e mypackage.deb foobar/DEBIAN
modify files in foobar directory
dpkg-deb -b foobar

[klauss]

Ok, so instead of "make all" we could "make vssetup vegastrike vegaserver mesher".

I'll try that.

[safemode]

The game should be vegastrike and vegaserver and vssetup. Anything else should be a separate package for modding tools. And we should have non-common names for things we're building.... the replace thing is definitely in need of renaming. even if it's just to add vs to prefix it, that would solve any issues distros have.

[klauss]

ATM, I'm just not building anything other than mesher, vssetup, vegastrike and vegaserver, the most commonly used tools.

Plus, I'm moving everything to /usr/games, which seems to be the standard on many distros, not just debian.

Plus, I'm testing OpenSUSE 11.4, and there are some missing dependencies (some packages that disappeared from the official repos), so I'll just add them to the VS repos.