Bug 711068

Summary:	app-emulation/hercules-sdl: new package
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	s390 team <s390>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	admnd, jstein, matoro_bugzilla_gentoo, sam
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PullRequest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/31051
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	521032, 828460, 879629

Description Nathan Dehnel 2020-02-28 22:54:45 UTC

I would really like a package for hercules 4.0 hyperion mainframe emulator.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2020-03-01 19:28:22 UTC

please add the URL to upstream. I suggest to prepare an ebuild for an overlay first.

Comment 2 Nathan Dehnel 2020-03-06 03:56:12 UTC

https://github.com/hercules-390/hyperion

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2021-11-18 06:38:22 UTC

hyperion is a fork.  this would be a new package, not an upgrade for the main release series.

Comment 4 matoro archtester

2022-12-04 02:08:15 UTC

Development on Hercules Hyperion unfortunately stalled in ~2019, but it has AGAIN been forked by "SoftDevLabs" and is undergoing active development at https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion.

I have been packaging this version out-of-tree at https://github.com/matoro/overlay/tree/master/app-emulation/hercules-sdl for the last couple releases as well as actively using it to virtualize my s390 test host with excellent results.

There is unfortunately one main hurdle to getting it in tree, which is that several submodules of the original code have been split out to their own repositories and are now integrated via directly checking in Windows binaries.  The submodules have no build tags and further there is no indication of what commit the submodule binaries for a given Hercules release come from.

I have opened an upstream tracking issue here:  https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion/issues/530  In the event that we don't get an upstream response I will end up packaging the submodules using best-guess effort for snapshot commits, as opposed to the live ebuilds I have in my overlay right now.

Also updating the title and URL for this ticket.