Arx Libertalis

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 04/20/2012 10:01 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I see Arx Libertalis made a stable release (1.0).  Given the
> availability of the demo, I think packaging this is within (though as
> usual for this kind of thing, on the edge) of what's acceptable for
> Fedora.
>
> Anyone interested in working on this?  One "problem" is that upstream
> provides Fedora packages, built on the opensuse build system.  That in
> itself is fine, but the packaging split is a bit weird to me, with a
> metapackage and some other stuff.  Of course those packages don't
> support autodownloader and don't include some upsteam-provided scripts
> to operate on the actual game data, so there is some possibility for
> added value.  You can see the upstream packages at
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries?package=arx-libertatis&project=home%3Adscharrer&repository=Fedora_16
>
> I believe all dependencies are already in place, except for one thing
> (innoextract) required to unpack the GOG release of the commercial game
> in the case that someone doesn't want to install wine to run the
> installer.  Everything needed for the code to build and run is already
> in Fedora.

Packaging Arx Libertalis sounds like a good idea to me, but TBH I think
it is better suited for rpmfusion.

Regards,

Hans