port of game-data-packager to Fedora

[Claudio Rodrigo]

I think the best is contact to rpmfusion list for package that aren't
according to fedora policy. Many games are on rpmfusion free and nonfree
repository for this reason.

It will be awesome have more games available in Fedora. Great work.

http://rpmfusion.org/

2015-11-02 6:43 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> My redhat/fedora skills were a bit rusty (1998-rusty),
> so as an exercice I dediced to port to fedora
> the game-data-packager Debian native project I'm working on.
>
> So far, so good, it's already mostly done.
>
> https://github.com/a-detiste/game-data-packager/commits/fedora
>
> That will provide Fedora recipes to automaticaly build noarch .rpm
> for currently about 200 games; one of my goal is to cover
> all versions of all scummvm games.
>
> It can also download shareware data for doom, quake, descent... games.
>
> http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/game-data/
>
> Of course it would be better to have real Fedora users that test this;
> not only someone that run a minimal install on a container.
> (chocolate-doom works over "ssh -X" !)
>
> For example I already spotted that fedora "dynamite" package
> is lacking id-shr-extract program; but "wolf4sdl" is also not packaged,
> so this is not a problem.
>
> https://sources.debian.net/src/dynamite/0.1.1-2/src/id-shr-extract.c/
>
>
> Of course, I realize it could be against Fedora policy (it's also not in
> Debian proper,
> but in contrib)...
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games#List_of_games_we_will_NOT_package
>
> There's also a handfull of DFSG games supported, like "Soltys" & "Dracie
> Historie";
> and DreamWeb that is distributable.
>
>
> Greets,
>
> Alexandre Detiste
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