Re: [gentoo-dev] Enemy Territory ebuild

[Corvus Corax <corvus-ml@cybertrench.com>]

Am Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:30:36 -0400
schrieb Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>:

> I want to ask the opinion of everyone.  I updated Enemy-Territory
> yesterday to close two bugs.  In doing so, I made the decision to make
> the newest version of Enemy Territory use the new full download.  I have
> had requests from people to have the full download, rather than the
> original download + patches, as the ebuild.
> 
> Well, I am thinking of breaking up the enemy-territory ebuilds into two
> ebuilds.  There would be an enemy-territory ebuild, which would use the
> original download + patches (and therefore be dial-up friendly) and the
> enemy-territory-full ebuild, which would always download and install the
> complete game from the most recent version.  This should satisfy both
> camps and also make the ebuild a bit more dial-up friendly.
> 
> Thoughts? Opinions? Flames?
> 
> -- 
> Chris Gianelloni
> Developer, Gentoo Linux
> Games Team
> 
> Is your power animal a penguin?
> 

I'd say, pack it into one ebuild and make it intelligent, some check like
"if an old tar.gz is already installed, download just the needed patches and patch,
but if it has to be downloaded anyway, download the newer "full" installation"
that saves the users from having to download both,
for example when installing the original .56 yesterday
and upgrading from .56 to .56-r1 today (grrrrr)

Corvus

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