game-data-packager

[Jonathan Dowland]

Hi Wayne,

On 22/02/2014 16:31, Wayne P Myers wrote:
> I try to generate the data files for quake using the game-data-packager
> and it says that it needs game args in the command line, it also says to
> run game-data-packager [game], to see the args option, but when I do
> this it just gives me game-data-packager args twice. I have tried type
> game-data-packager -i -d /usr/share/games/quake Quake, to no avail. I've
> also tried put -pak0 as a game argument, but that didn't work either,
> what's up??

Please file a bug against game-data-packager, making sure to mention the
version that you are running.

There was a bug in gdp where the game-data-packager arguments are output
twice, but this was fixed by version 30, which is the version
in Debian stable at the moment.

Here's what I see when running gdp from stable:

$ game-data-packager quake
game-data-packager quake arguments:
	game-data-packager quake path
		-m path		path to a mounted Quake CD-ROM
		-d path		path to an unpacked Quake directory
		-s path		path to a Quake shareware ZIP
		-mp1 path		path to an unpacked Scourge of Armagon directory
				or a mounted Scourge of Armagon CD
		-mp2 path		path to an unpacked Dissolution of Eternity directory
				or a mounted Dissolution of Eternity CD
		path		path to any of the above (game-data-packager will guess)

The above is not terribly clear, but basically you need to supply a path
argument to some quake data, somewhere, e.g.

    game-data-packager quake ~/my-quake-directory


I hope this helps

-- 
Jonathan Dowland