Anyone building a package for Oolite?

andrewwalker27 · l33t Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 660

Is anyone working on adding Oolite to portage?
In case anyone doesn't know, it's a clone of Elite but it appears quite tricky to install from what I've seen.
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

There's an ebuild in bugzilla.
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tuppe666 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 423

Its not a source build, surely thats not the gentoo way

ChristyMcJesus · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 184

Meh, I don't like oolite, it's written by an Macintard and it has a crummy license.

jakal323 · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: Options

Are there any Elite-like games other than Oolite that offer the same type of gameplay?
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Yes: emerge -pv x2-demo

tuppe666 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 423

Oolite v1.65 available.

any source compile yet!?

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tuppe666 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 423

Thats a binary build. tut

dragonnefyre · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 3 Location: This universe.

I have played Oolite on Slackware 10.2 Love it. So how much work is involved in the ebuild? I have never done one before, maybe I could help with this one? If not I shall just have to download from their website and install it.
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tuppe666 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 423

I suspect its not the best ebuild to start with. It requires GNUStep and all kinds of nonsense. I had a bash script build from svn for a bit but its really a bit of a pain, thats why I was pushing for an e-build

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Clarification: The binary ebuild works. It's the source ebuild that's incomplete. Both ebuilds are on the bug report.

It would be helpful if you posted the bash script. An ebuild is just basically a bash script also.

tuppe666 · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 423

I just had a look at the ebuild on there. Then I entered gnustep hell. I had forgotten in truth how bad this is. I felt like weeping after the 2nd hour. I may have a look over the weekend.

Doogman · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 242

I just tried the binary ebuild this weekend and it works great! Thanks!

It's a well-polished Elite clone. Shame it's not in the regular portage tree.

charlieg · Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:16 pm Post subject:

Vega Strike guys, come on! :wink:

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Listat · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject:

Newbie Alert!

Hi, this is my first post to the forum

I've just tried to use the ebuild from https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106890 after following the guide at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds

I've ended up with this error after reaching the point where I enter:
ebuild /usr/local/portage/games-misc/oolite-bin/oolite-bin-1.65.ebuild digest

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Listat · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:24 am Post subject:

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

For amd64 support in oolite, see wiki. oolite needs more 32-bit libraries than Gentoo provides under amd64, apparently. The Debian package (also oolite-data) looks like it works on amd64.

Listat · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:02 pm Post subject:

All Done!

Extracted emul-linux-x86-libxslt & emul-linux-x86-libxml2 from the deb package to /tmp/, copied both over to /usr/lib32/ and it all ran. Didn't even have to change the symlinks!

Thanks for the help..... now I need to find out how to calibrate a joypad :wink:

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

libxml2 is already available.

Please remove those manually-added lib32 libs and try the new oolite-bin ebuild, which should populate /usr/lib32 itself

Listat · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:16 pm Post subject:

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Listat · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject:

Here provides a link to libxml2-2.6.27.tbz2. I actually used ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.20-1.i386.rpm ,extracted the relevant files and moved them to the required location.

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Please edit the ebuild. It's difficult for me to do it when I'm not on amd64 and so can't check that it works.