Bug#775365: Re: steam auto packager

[Alexandre Detiste]

Hi,

Thanks for this tip! I forward your mail in full to the Debian bug tracker.

Alexandre


I've created this other bug to ask for steamcmd; I guess it will be
turned in an ITP/RFP:
   #775512 steam: please provide steamcmd

> 2015-01-16 15:52 GMT+01:00 Zohar Malamant <dotfloat at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for not getting to you earlier.
>
> You can use steam-appmanifest however you like. I haven’t found a way of
> refreshing Steam without restarting it.
>
> If you just want to download game data (legally), you can do so with
> SteamCMD. Set up SteamCMD and then you can run something like:
>
> steamcmd + at sSteamCmdForcePlatformType windows +login STEAM_USERNAME PASSWORD
> +force_install_dir ./doom/ +app_update 2280 validate +quit
>
> This will download the Ultimate Doom data to ./doom/. I intend to write a
> less hacky program that uses SteamCMD at some point, but you’re free to use
> this too if it is of any use to you.
>
> I don’t recognise the .acf format, so I think it’s Valve’s own creation. It
> seems to be fairly simple, though. There are only key-value pairs, where the
> value can either be a list or a string.
>
> Regards,
> Zohar Malamant.