Bug 300284 – games-strategy/savage2-bin needs write permissions for games group on /opt/savage2 for being able to apply upstream updates

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Pacho Ramos 2010-01-09 14:02:50 UTC]

Like commented in comments 1, 2 and 3 in bug 289426

"when I try to login, it tries to
update from 2.1.0.1 to 2.1.0.1 (???) and the loading bar remains stuck at 74%
showing "Unable to write to game".

A similar problem was reported at:
http://forums.savage2.com/showthread.php?t=19172
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18415

when run as root it updates to a 2.1.0.2 version, then, maybe games
group should have write permissions on /opt/savage2 (something similar is
already being done with enemy-territory)"

This blocks its stabilization since users will simply get a non-playable version

Thanks for fixing this :-)

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Tristan Heaven (RETIRED) 2010-01-09 15:51:10 UTC]

Allowing games group to write there would be worse than bug 125902.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2010-01-11 14:18:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Allowing games group to write there would be worse than bug 125902.
> 

Well, I understand your point of view, I have just asked them to release a new installer or give us some mirror where download updated files for being able to bump our version.

But, please, also take care that other ebuilds are granting write permissions for games group:
$ grep -r "chmod g+rw" */*/*.ebuild
games-arcade/jardinains/jardinains-2.0.ebuild:	chmod g+rw "${D}${dir}/data/prefs.xml"
games-fps/enemy-territory/enemy-territory-2.60b.ebuild:		chmod g+rw "${Ddir}/etwolf-homedir"
games-fps/enemy-territory/enemy-territory-2.60b.ebuild:	chmod g+rw "${Ddir}" "${Ddir}/etmain"
games-rpg/nwn-data/nwn-data-1.29-r1.ebuild:	chmod g+rwX ${Ddir} || die "could not chmod"
games-rpg/nwn-data/nwn-data-1.29-r3.ebuild:	chmod g+rwX ${Ddir} || die "could not chmod"

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2010-01-11 14:23:48 UTC]

Other option would be to suggest users to run the game as root the first time for updating :-/

[Comment 4 Valeriy Malov 2010-02-08 17:38:38 UTC]

S2 Games primarly are using manual updates by client, I don't understand why someone even wants to use portage for updates :/ 

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2010-02-08 20:24:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> S2 Games primarly are using manual updates by client, I don't understand why
> someone even wants to use portage for updates :/ 
> 

Because updates done by client requires write permissions for /opt/Savage2 :-/

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-12-22 16:09:58 UTC]

Removed from Portage wrt bug 390919.