pingus masked

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hilde · Post by **hilde** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:00 am

Although pingus is still marked "stable" at http://packages.gentoo.org, it seems to be hard masked in portage:

laptop-hilde hilde # emerge -pv pingus

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies |
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "pingus" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- games-puzzle/pingus-0.6.0-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
# Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> (19 Mar 2007)
# masked for removal in April.
# Old and nasty.  Not supported by upstream.
# use the newer versions of clanlib instead.

I don't think pingus is nasty, it's just a bit old (that's of course my opinion).
The main thing is: I don't understand what Michael Sterrett means when he writes "use the newer versions of clanlib instead.", since clanlib is just a library. In my opinion, it doensn't make much sense to replace a game by a library to build games. Does anyone know what is meant by this sentence?

EzInKy · Post by **EzInKy** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:17 am

It means pingus depends on a version of clanlib which is old and nasty.

hilde · Post by **hilde** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:21 pm

So the "use the newer versions of clanlib instead." is not really meant for the users? Thanks for the explanation.

nutbar21 · Post by **nutbar21** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:24 pm

I suppose you could email Mr. Sterrett for the whole story, but that's what it looks like.

DnasTheGreat · Post by **DnasTheGreat** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:33 am

And I assume ClanLib's API changed?

If someone were to port Pingus to ClanLib 0.8, would that save the ebuild?

Sodki · Post by **Sodki** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:07 am

DnasTheGreat wrote:If someone were to port Pingus to ClanLib 0.8, would that save the ebuild?

Yes.

wyv3rn · Post by **wyv3rn** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:03 pm

Supposedly there is work going on to port pingus to SDL, though I have no idea how vigorously.

http://pingus.seul.org/news.html

mikegpitt · Post by **mikegpitt** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:28 pm

wyv3rn wrote:Supposedly there is work going on to port pingus to SDL, though I have no idea how vigorously.

http://pingus.seul.org/news.html

I wish the masking would be held off until we had the new SDL version ready, especially since they seem to be working on it.

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:31 am

Don't be too expectant. Sadly the SDL port is not really playable and there is no active development at the moment (I spoke to Grumbel about it yesterday).

mikegpitt · Post by **mikegpitt** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:38 pm

charlieg wrote:Don't be too expectant. Sadly the SDL port is not really playable and there is no active development at the moment (I spoke to Grumbel about it yesterday).

I had hoped seeing their posting being from Jan'07 that development was active. I suppose another excellent app will die the portage death... It's funny that I personally seem to use every app that gets removed

(And before people tear me up for calling pingus excellent, I mean excellent because pingus is a fun game, not excellent that it is unmaintained and depends on old libraries.)

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:17 pm

I think Pingus development will return (I plan for it to happen - since I have a good audience these days I'm going to make an appeal in a bit) so it won't die a portage death.

BlackHell · Post by **BlackHell** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:10 pm

I hope Pingus will not die.

The latest news on the website http://pingus.seul.org/news.html are from 25.07.2007.

I have hope

Whats this? http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pingus/
pingus from scratch?

ok · Post by ok » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:50 pm

BlackHell wrote:The latest news on the website http://pingus.seul.org/news.html are from 25.07.2007.?

25.06.2007, not July.

Sodki · Post by **Sodki** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:22 pm

The new version of Pingus is now available! Grrreat!

sirdilznik · Post by **sirdilznik** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:29 pm

Sodki wrote:The new version of Pingus is now available! Grrreat!

There is an ebuild available for it in bugzilla. You need both the ebuild and the patch. Works great here on amd64.

IvanHoe · Post by **IvanHoe** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:12 pm

sirdilznik wrote:
Sodki wrote:The new version of Pingus is now available! Grrreat!
There is an ebuild available for it in bugzilla. You need both the ebuild and the patch. Works great here on amd64.

I get a sandbox violation:

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scons: done building targets.
ACCESS DENIED  open_wr:   /usr/include/SDL/.scons9808
ACCESS DENIED  open_wr:   /usr/include/SDL/.sconsign
>>> Source compiled.
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-games-puzzle_-_pingus-0.7.0-9761.log"

open_wr:   /usr/include/SDL/.scons9808
open_wr:   /usr/include/SDL/.sconsign
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
!!! This ebuild is from an overlay: '/usr/local/portage'

Cereza · Post by **Cereza** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:35 pm

Try:

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FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge pingus

Sodki · Post by **Sodki** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:47 am

IvanHoe wrote:
sirdilznik wrote:
Sodki wrote:The new version of Pingus is now available! Grrreat!
There is an ebuild available for it in bugzilla. You need both the ebuild and the patch. Works great here on amd64.
I get a sandbox violation:
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scons: done building targets.
ACCESS DENIED  open_wr:   /usr/include/SDL/.scons9808
ACCESS DENIED  open_wr:   /usr/include/SDL/.sconsign
>>> Source compiled.
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-games-puzzle_-_pingus-0.7.0-9761.log"

open_wr:   /usr/include/SDL/.scons9808
open_wr:   /usr/include/SDL/.sconsign
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
!!! This ebuild is from an overlay: '/usr/local/portage'

Just unmerge scons and emerge it again and it will work.

IvanHoe · Post by **IvanHoe** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:41 am

Sodki wrote:Just unmerge scons and emerge it again and it will work.

I still get the same error.