Author: jmtd-guest Date: 2007-06-30 14:30:17 +0000 (Sat, 30 Jun 2007) New Revision: 3148
Modified: packages/trunk/prboom/debian/README.Debian Log: add a description of how to obtain the package source (in SVN) and build it Modified: packages/trunk/prboom/debian/README.Debian =================================================================== --- packages/trunk/prboom/debian/README.Debian 2007-06-30 04:43:21 UTC (rev 3147) +++ packages/trunk/prboom/debian/README.Debian 2007-06-30 14:30:17 UTC (rev 3148) @@ -1,9 +1,35 @@ +The prboom source package +========================= + +The prboom debian package is maintained in subversion by the Debian Games +Team. You can obtain the source and build the package using svn-buildpackage: + + a) svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/trunk/prboom + b) mkdir tarballs + c) put the relevant orig.tar.gz into the tarballs directory + (it can be found on debian source mirrors, or at + <http://pkg-games.alioth.debian.org/tarballs/>). + d) cd prboom + e) build using svn-buildpackage (e.g. + svn-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc) + +If you do not want to use svn-buildpackage: + + a) unpack the orig.tar.gz + b) chdir into the unpackacked source directory + c) svn export --force \ + svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/trunk/prboom . + d) build using whatever method you like + + prboom and svgalib ================== -Using the svgalib driver of SDL is not recommended, as it requires root privileges -for the binary. If you want to run prboom without X11 use the fbcon driver, which -has better hardware support and doesn't suffer from security problems. +Using the svgalib driver of SDL is not recommended, as it requires root +privileges for the binary. If you want to run prboom without X11 use the fbcon +driver, which has better hardware support and doesn't suffer from security +problems. + If this is not an option for you make sure to a) make prboom setuid root by doing dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 4755 /usr/games/prboom _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-commits
