Bugzilla Bug 110972

Haven't been able to find the license on their homepage, but their code should 
be GPL'd. 
  
[quote from HappyPenguin]  
 Alien Arena 2006 is the ultimate freeware deathmatch game!   
Included are 25 total levels, 9 detailed characters, 8 weapons, 2 vehicles, 5  
gameplay modes(DM, TDM, CTF, All Out Assault, Deathball), and much more!   
New for Alien Arena 2006 are five mutators(instagib, regeneration, vampire,  
rocket arena, and low grav), and Deathball, a mode in which you get points by  
capturing a ball and firing in into a goal. Eight new levels have been added,  
as well as alternate firing modes for several of the weapons. The game now runs  
on version 4.03 of the CRX engine, based on the id Software GPL source codes,  
and adding nextgen features such as reflective water, shaders, light bloom,  
improved lighting, and much more, while optimizations allow it to still run  
extremely fast even on modest systems. The game now features colored names, an  
improved console, and an enhanced in-game server browser.   
 Also available is the "Nightmare Bots" patch, which adds a fourth skill level  
to the in-game bots, which will challenge even the best players.  
[end quote]

Really nice game! Can't wait for the ebuild! :)

Created an attachment (id=72137) [edit]
alienarena-2006.ebuild

EBUILD for Alien Arena 2006 is here ;)

Needs some testing as I did not test dedicated nor AMD64 (do not have it), but
on x86 it started the game for me. I used Enemy Territory ebuild from official
portage as my guide in creating this, so it should be following Portage rules,
but surely everyone is welcome to further develop this ebuild for its inclusion
into portage tree. 
What needs to be done is commented in the ebuild itself.

- never put arch stuff into IUSE
- when you unpack the .run file there is probably a license in $WORKDIR
- remove the pointless 'cd $S' in src_unpack/src_install
- dont quote variables when you set them ... just do S=${WORKDIR}
- move the chmod stuff to right after the doins

Created an attachment (id=72160) [edit]
alienarena-2006.ebuild

Hi SpanKY,
Thanks for the quick response and the pointers.

- there is no licence present in the .run package or it is hidden in some sub
directory... I will asked about it in the game forums
http://corent.proboards42.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=crarena&thread=1131186002


- reason I put "-*" in ther was that their own setup provided some checking for
other archs (mips, ppc, hppa and mips if I remember correctly) it just I dont
know really what to do about it sinse my experience with those archs (and
AMD64) is zero...

-fix for the "engine" install part (fundamental change without which game
engine would not install in the proper place)

-I just found out the chmod stuff dont work... regardles of where I place it.
It informs me taht the directories in question do not exist. It needs to be
looked at us I just don't know (I made it work for myself manually)

- I placed there new chmod line (not working at present) to allow group to
write to the .cfg files. The game does not create any configs in users home dir
and I think it is sane that users have the option to change the game configs.

- changed the comments in the ebuild a little bit

Created an attachment (id=72264) [edit]
alienarena-2006.ebuild

This is the best ebuild I could provide for the game. The link for the game is
changed and propoe licence is added. Other stuff remains constant.

Ebuild should install for everyone. Only problem there may be is that users by
defualt would not have write access to .cfg and therefore would not be able to
make their changes pernament (in some cases in may be a good thing).

Therefore is someone things chmod stuff needs to be fixed than let them provide
this final touch for the ebuild, but for me the ebuild is practicly done.

Thanks

P.S. Waiting its inclusion into the portage ;)

Created an attachment (id=78338) [edit]
alienarena-bin-0.0.2006.1.21.ebuild

Hi, here is a tidied ebuild which includes the 21-Jan-2006 patch. It does not
set up an init script for the dedicated server. User files are in ~/.codered/

It uses the supplied binaries - the source does not compile with "make all",
both with and without the patch's source - error is:
../client/qmenu.c:552: error: conflicting types for 'Menu_DrawString'
../client/qmenu.c:60: error: previous implicit declaration of 'Menu_DrawString'
was here

Can someone test it on amd64? It's unclear as to whether the patch's binary
supports amd64.

Created an attachment (id=78341) [edit]
alienarena-bin-0.0.2006.1.21.ebuild

Added games_pkg_postinst - silly me.

Created an attachment (id=79484) [edit]
alienarena-bin-0.0.20060210.ebuild

Here is an ebuild for the 2006 "Gold Edition".

I tried both ebuilds on AMD64

1) ryszard's doesn't even want to ebuild dist
2) Paul's ebuild dist's normally, and starts building, but exits on unpacking
with this error:

[--start of quote--]
Archive:  /usr/portage/distfiles/midniteskins.zip
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of
/usr/portage/distfiles/midniteskins.zip or
        /usr/portage/distfiles/midniteskins.zip.zip, and cannot find
/usr/portage/distfiles/midniteskins.zip.ZIP, period.

!!! ERROR: games-fps/alienarena-bin-0.0.20060210 failed.
!!! Function src_unpack, Line 51, Exitcode 9
!!! unzip midniteskins failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.
[--end of quote--]

That sounds like a bad download of the skins file. Delete it from
/usr/portage/distfiles/ and digest the ebuild again.

amd64 worksforme

But I did have problems with the download not completing a couple of times ... 

Installing alienarena-bin-0.0.20060210.ebuild printed this close to the end:
man:

QA Notice: the following files contain executable stacks
 Files with executable stacks will not work properly (or at all!)
 on some architectures/operating systems.  A bug should be filed
 at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to make sure the file is fixed.
RWX --- --- opt/alienarena/crx
RWX --- --- opt/alienarena/crx.sdl

The game seems to install fine after 'ebuild ... unpack, compile, install,
qmerge'
The game runs apart from the inverted mouse in the main menu. Unable to try
multiplayer due to lack of servers.

Created an attachment (id=88263) [edit]
alienarena-bin-20060530.ebuild

Here is an ebuild for the "Uranium Edition".

Created an attachment (id=92008) [edit]
alienarena-bin-20060717.ebuild

Ebuild for an early "2007" test version.

Created an attachment (id=92049) [edit]
alienarena-bin-20060530.ebuild

Fixed "Uranium Edition" for download location. Removed the 3 third-party skins
files.

(In reply to comment #16)
> Created an attachment (id=92049) [edit]
> alienarena-bin-20060530.ebuild
> 
> Fixed "Uranium Edition" for download location. Removed the 3 third-party skins
> files.
> 
At this time is the donload link is down in the ebuild. But i have found a new
one
http://ftp.giga.net.tw/OS/FreeBSD/distfiles/

Created an attachment (id=95249) [edit]
alienarena-bin-20060530.ebuild

Added "ftp." to fix planetmirror link.

Not sure about the giga link - it's odd that it's mirrored there, but not in
all the other FreeBSD mirrors.

The "2007 test" download has disappeared, so I've marked that ebuild as
obsolete.

Created an attachment (id=95578) [edit]
alienarena-bin-20060831.ebuild

Ebuild for "2007" binaries.

Created an attachment (id=95579) [edit]
alienarena-20060831.ebuild

Ebuild for "2007" source code & data.

(In reply to comment #20)
> Created an attachment (id=95579) [edit]
> alienarena-20060831.ebuild
> 
> Ebuild for "2007" source code & data.
> 

This fails on AMD64 with:
>>> Install alienarena-20060831 into /var/tmp/portage/alienarena-20060831/image/ category games-fps
install: cannot stat `release/gamei386.so': No such file or directory

!!! ERROR: games-fps/alienarena-20060831 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1539:   Called dyn_install
  ebuild.sh, line 1013:   Called src_install
  alienarena-20060831.ebuild, line 89:   Called die

!!! doexe gamei386.so failed

I checked the work directories and this is what I got:

# find /var/tmp/portage/alienarena-20060831 |grep gamei386.so
/var/tmp/portage/alienarena-20060831/work/engine/x86/arena/gamei386.so
/var/tmp/portage/alienarena-20060831/work/engine/x86/data1/gamei386.so

It appears that I have this file, however:
/var/tmp/portage/alienarena-20060831/work/source/linux/release/gamex86_64.so

Created an attachment (id=95976) [edit]
alienarena-20060831.ebuild

Fixes gamex86_64.so reference for amd64 :)

Created an attachment (id=96182) [edit]
alienarena-20060831.ebuild

Fixed the non-dependence on USE flags for the dedicated server. Added more
mirrors to SRC_URI.

Added compilation warning in pkg_setup() - sounds like problems when using GCC
4.1.1 - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-493983.html

Created an attachment (id=96183) [edit]
alienarena-bin-20060831.ebuild

{arena,data1}/gamei386.so are identical, so now creates a symlink.

I made a patch that allows compilation with gcc 4.1.1. I have yet to see if
it's stable, but I don't see why not, since I only changed a few variables.

Created an attachment (id=96643) [edit]
Gcc 4.1.1 patch

Created an attachment (id=96644) [edit]
alienarena-20060831.ebuild

Modified ebuild

2007 is out :)

Created an attachment (id=101193) [edit]
alienarena-20060831-r1.ebuild

Added patch from http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-513207.html

Compiles OK on x86 with gcc-4.1.1-r1

Created an attachment (id=104298) [edit]
alienarena-20061216.ebuild

Produces crackling audio when landing after a fall, so alienarena-bin is
probably a better choice.

Created an attachment (id=104299) [edit]
alienarena-bin-20061216.ebuild

http://corent.proboards42.com/index.cgi?board=crarena&action=display&thread=1132501476

12/28/06 update is out :)

Created an attachment (id=107919) [edit]
alienarena-20070121.ebuild

Version bump. Uses -O0 to fix crackling audio.

Created an attachment (id=107920) [edit]
alienarena-bin-20070121.ebuild

Uses precompiled binaries.

Created an attachment (id=107922) [edit]
alienarena-bin-20070121.ebuild

Oops, removed useless "debug" USE flag in -bin.

Created an attachment (id=110288) [edit]
alienarena-20070121.ebuild

Added check for gcc 4.1.1, because gcc 4.1.2 solves the audio crackle without
needing -O0.

Fixed, thanks.

Created an attachment (id=113390) [edit]
Ebuild for version 6.04 released on 20070225

The previous bin download link has been removed because the new version 6.04 is
available. 

This ebuild differs from the current one in the install section, because the
bin version now comes with two precompiled binaries (one for i686, the other
for x86_64)

NB: makes alienarena-bin-20070121.ebuild obsolete

If you expect something to be done about it, please file a new bug report. 
This report was for the ebuild to be written/added, which has been done for
some time now.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/games/#doc_chap5_sect9