Bug 419557

Summary:	games-action/cortex-command-0.25 new ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jared B. <nitro>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	openhs
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.datarealms.com/games.php
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	games-action/cortex-command-0.25.ebuild DataRealms license games-action/cortex-command-1.0_rc1.ebuild

Description Jared B. 2012-06-04 03:10:47 UTC

New ebuild for Cortex Command.  This is for version 0.25, which is the most recent version available through the Humble Indie Bundle download page, but version 0.26 is available if you buy direct.

Couple things worth mentioned:

1. By far, the worst part of the game is that it saves it's settings file in the application directory (specifically, ./Base.rte/Settings.ini).  I tried working around this with a crapton of symlinks under ~/.cortex-command/, but I couldn't get it to work.  It's apparently a known issue based on a forum post, but the developers don't seem particular included to fix it.  This, obviously, would need to be solved or worked around before it's ready for portage inclusion.

2. The release package includes some bundled libraries, some of which are mandatory as they don't exist in portage and some of which can be replaced by portage packages.  I used the system-libs USE flag to control installation of the optional bundled libs.  The exception is libopenal.so.1: this library is provided by media-libs/openal, and running an ldd on the game binary even shows that it finds the system version, but the game will crash when using it.  No idea why, but restoring the bundled version fixes the problem, so that's what's done in the ebuild.

Other than the above, the ebuild should be pretty self-explanatory.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jared B. 2012-06-04 03:11:09 UTC

Created attachment 314121 [details]
games-action/cortex-command-0.25.ebuild

Comment 2 Jared B. 2012-06-04 03:11:35 UTC

Created attachment 314123 [details]
DataRealms license

Comment 3 Jared B. 2013-03-20 01:59:59 UTC

Created attachment 342684 [details]
games-action/cortex-command-1.0_rc1.ebuild

minor update for 1.0rc release.  Unfortunately, the same issues mentioned above still apply.  Only difference in this ebuild (aside from supporting the new installer file name) is that I added a chmod -R g+w to the installation directory.  Ugly, I know, but it's the only way I can get it to save preferences and game progress.