ShrapnelGames.com has released an awesome game called; Dominions II. Forunatly this game (and demo) is available for Linux, but unfortunately this game (and demo) isn't available in the portage tree. I would like to make a humble request to the game-gurus to add this to the tree. Downloadlocation for the demo; http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/d2/6.htm Thanks a lot in advance. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I'll look into getting the demo added, but there's no way I can add the full game without buying it. I'll look into purchasing a copy.
Great, I would like to enjoy this game..:-)
Is there a chance one of you guys can grab this one (at least the demo) since I've been rather swamped and am having a difficult time keeping up with my bug requests, let alone requests for new features.
games-strategy/dominions2-demo-bin added to CVS. Since we don't have a copy of the retail version an ebuild for that's not possible at this time. If anyone has a copy and would like to attach a working ebuild as text/plain that would be grand.
hi, my copy of the game arrived yesterday, so here's the ebuild I wrote. I added an icon to 'files/' which is about 1 kb in size in order to avoid a buildtime dependency on imagemagick (convert). The icon included on the CD comes in .ico-format only. I edited the icon to add background transparency. The ebuild is keyworded for x86 and ppc, but I did only test it on x86, because I don't own a ppc-machine. The USE-flag 'doc' installs some additional documentation which I consider useful: a detailed beginners walkthrough and the updated manual in pdf-format.
Created attachment 68643 [details] dominions2-2.16.ebuild
Created attachment 68644 [details] dominions2.png -> files/dominions2.png
someone reopen this...
- don't KEYWORD for a platform that you can't test - don't use cp where doins (or doins -r) works fine - pkg_setup isn't needed - newicon can be doicon, you aren't renaming it - does the game *require* esound? Also, since none of us have a copy of this game, we can't include it yet. We have to be able to support anything that we add. Anyway, I just ordered it from Tuxgames, so I should have it in ~2 weeks.
First, thanks for the suggestions. Does anyone have the possibility to test the game on ppc or shall I remove the keyword? Ok, I'll remove pkg_setup() - I thought it would be needed for check_license() once the exact name and terms of the proprietary license are determined. esound is marked as a dependency in the demo's ebuild, which I used as a template. I haven't tried if it is really necessary.
I have a PPC machine, but if it requires OpenGL, I won't be able to test it, since there's no opengl-capable drivers for Nvidia on the PPC. It looks like we'll just need to remove the KEYWORDS. I'd leave the SRC_URI for it, though. It'll make it easier for the PPC team to KEYWORD it later.
Created attachment 68845 [details] dominions2-2.16.ebuild Here's the updated ebuild.
I modified the ebuild slightly and committed it to CVS. Thanks for the ebuild! In the future, when dealing with something that supports more than one architecture, don't use the $ARCH variable. Instead, use the USE flag. if use x86; then It makes it cleaner, and allows for amd64 support on x86 binaries. ;]
