[Fedora-packaging] Packaging games?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 08/06/2009 10:30 PM, Ryan Rix wrote:
> 1) When packaging a game, is it safe to assume that the user who will be
> running this is a member of the games group?
> 2) If not, what is the best method of applying setgid to the /usr/bin/ivan
> in the spec file?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games/Packaging has a section that 
covers this.

> 3) Is it acceptable by review standards to have a zero length file in the
> rpm, even if rpmlint moans about it? It's a high score file under /var/games
> that apparently cannot be created by the main executable. I tried patching
> the source to create the file automatically, but I couldn't figure out how;
> it's probably has something to do with permissions. The mode on the fopen
> call was already "wb" which 'should' work...

If you have a good reason to do so, just put a comment there in the spec 
file and do it. If a reviewer points it out, just explain why you did 
what you did.

> 4) Are packaging guidelines for games spelt out anywhere?

Just the URL I posted above.

~spot