[game-data-packager] 01/01: add support for Jedy Academy demo

[Alexandre Detiste]

2015-03-31 10:40 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>:
>> +  jedi-academy-demo-data:
>> +      conflicts: jedi-academy-data
>
> Where possible, I would like demo/shareware/limited versions to be
> co-installable with the full version. Game engine maintainers are very
> likely to own a copy of the full version, and if the demo is not
> co-installable, it makes it hard for the engine maintainer to test.

Ok, I agree, hexen2-demo-data could maybe be fixed too;
if the maintainer is interrested.

> As I think I've already demonstrated with src:quake, I'm happy to modify
> game engines' packages to make this possible.

Oh, please do ! Most of the work here was to get unshield & 7z to work
on this archive;
the yaml file can easilly be changed.

>
>> +    install:
>> +    - assets0.pk3_demo
>
> It's probably possible to make this work without an additional pk3 for
> the two files you mentioned on the upstream bug, by just unpacking them
> so that there is a ui/ directory next to assets0.pk3, and renaming or
> symlinking suitably.

That really seemed trivial to solve upstream, and that would benefit all distro.
(even non-linux systems ?)
Also I didn't know that this engine would accept bare files outside of an
zip container too.

The instructions for running RTCW demo talks also about unpacking &
repacking :-(

>> +  JediAcademyDemo.exe:
>> +    download: http://download.fileplanet.com/ftp1/092003/JediAcademyDemo.exe
>
> FilePlanet URLs are not suitable for deep-linking. You'll get 403
> Forbidden unless you have recently followed a download link from the
> user-facing website (I'm not sure whether it uses cookies or your IP
> address to track this).

Ugh, ... is there a reliable way to work around this ?

I once automated web banking with except + DCOP + konqueror in a xvfb;
but that was a fragile setup; now for a similar problem with e-bills
received by email,
I throw the urls at google-chrome (neither wget nor curl works)
and the .pdf are then later moved out of ~/Downloads by a cron job;
but I could hardly let gdp recommends googlechrome :-|

--

I host SpearOfDestiny demo files & w6patc12.zip on both of my isp's
10 megabytes-ish free web space; (of course JA won't fit there)

should those be put there
@moszumanska:/srv/home/groups/pkg-games/htdocs
too with 1rott13.zip & 1wolf14.zip ?

and etc/alioth-mirrors etc/spear-of-destiny-mirrors be merged ?