Indeed it seems the issue comes from the crafty book.bin & book.bin packages. On the official ftp site (ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/) those files date back to 30/1/2007. At that time the latest stable version of crafty was 21.6, which is higher than the 20.17 version the error mesage complains about.
After further investigation i managed to get the book.bin & books.bin files provided on the ftp site to work. The book.bin & books.bin files provided by the crafty-books-medium debian package are dated from 04/03/2007. They should work according to that date, however crafty reports them as outdated. So i replaced those files located in /var/lib/crafty by those from the ftp site. (Note : the book files on the ftp server are not that satisfying as they are much lighter that those provided from the crafty-book-xxx packages) So to me the procedure to solve the issue seem to be : --- Rebuild up-to-date crafty-books-medium, crafty-books-medtosmall and crafty-books-small packages. Either by asking the author to provide new book files or by creating new ones as explained here : http://www.cis.uab.edu/hyatt/craftydoc.html --- En date de : Lun 9.2.09, Patrik Fimml <pat...@fimml.at> a écrit : De: Patrik Fimml <pat...@fimml.at> Objet: À: "shakaz" <shakaz2...@yahoo.fr>, 514...@bugs.debian.org, cont...@bugs.debian.org Date: Lundi 9 Février 2009, 16h43 cont...@bugs.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Bug#514622: eboard: book.bin version outdated when using crafty engine Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20090209151151.5632.47385.report...@localhost> Pgp: S retitle 514622 crafty reports book.bin as outdated reassign 514622 crafty 22.10-1 thanks On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:11:51PM +0100, shakaz wrote: > When using the crafty engine in eboard, following error message appears : > ERROR! book.bin not made by version 20.17 or later > This results in the openings' book not being used, so the engine takes > a lot more time to calculate moves at the opening of a game. I cannot verify this as crafty is only available for i386, but eboard does nothing more than passing the path of the book file to crafty, so I guess this is an issue with the crafty package or the crafty book packages. > Also of interest regarding the use of crafty in eboard : > The book.bin & books.bin files are located in /var/lib/crafty/ > Eboard though looks for them in the following locations : > ~/.eboard > ~ > /usr/local/share/eboard > /usr/share/eboard > /usr/local/share/crafty > /usr/share/crafty As of eboard-1.1.1-3, it will also search in /var/lib/crafty. (#161497) Kind regards, Patrik Ne pleurez pas si votre Webmail ferme. Récupérez votre historique sur Yahoo! Mail __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ne pleurez pas si votre Webmail ferme ! Récupérez votre historique sur Yahoo! Mail ! http://fr.docs.yahoo.com/mail/transfert_mails.html
