Bug 454520 – games-fps/urbanterror: install 4.1 and 4.2 into separate slots

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Yuego 2013-01-29 13:06:22 UTC]

Created attachment 337220 [details]
urbanterror-4.2.009-r1.ebuild

Ebuild for 4.2 based on games-fps/urbanterror-4.2.009

Ebuild for 4.1 includes a patch for the optimization and optional bump mapping patch. Ebuild requires revision

[Comment 1 Yuego 2013-01-29 13:07:03 UTC]

Created attachment 337222 [details]
urbanterror-4.1.1807.251210.ebuild

[Comment 2 Yuego 2013-01-29 13:07:22 UTC]

Created attachment 337224 [details, diff]
patch for 4.1

[Comment 3 Yuego 2013-01-29 13:08:10 UTC]

Created attachment 337226 [details, diff]
ftgl_include.patch

patch for 4.1

[Comment 4 Julian Ospald 2013-01-29 14:09:22 UTC]

why would I want to slot this? upstream only supports 4.2 now.

[Comment 5 Yuego 2013-01-29 14:19:11 UTC]

A lot of players are still using 4.1 and also a lot of servers running on 4.1.

I think I'm not the only one who needs to change from time to time version - and very uncomfortable doing it, reinstalling the package every time.

[Comment 6 Julian Ospald 2013-01-29 14:41:46 UTC]

I really don't think that this is a common usecase to justify such a maintenance complication. 4.1 will not be in the tree for very long anyway. Once upstream declares 4.2 stable it will be treecleaned.
This is just a migration problem and not a real case for slotting.

The other way would be not to support beta versions at all.

If you want such a fiddle install 4.2 via upstreams auto-updater into a separate location.

[Comment 7 Yuego 2013-01-29 14:47:18 UTC]

 Ok. Convinced :). In this case, close the bug. I'll just leave it in my local overlay.