On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 06:52:19PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > While on this subject, you may want to take a look at > autodownloader just for fun, download a livecd (and boot > from it), do "yum install urbanterror" and then select > urbanterror in the application menu (under games, duh), or > just start the wrapper script from a terminal. This is our > solution to what I guess you are doing with > game-data-packager. This looks interesting, I shall take a gander :-) It seems to have a different focus to GDP: GDP is mostly about dealing with commercial games where you have a CD-ROM or a file (doom WAD file, Quake 3 CD-ROM, etc.) > Note that this just downloads the files (and extracts > them) to ~/.q3a/<path>/, which means no root rights are > needed, if you have multiple users on the machine who all > want these games it is very bandwidth and diskspace > inefficient, but we (I'm) are counting on that being the > exception. We go the other way with GDP but have our own problems. > The nice thing is it is all GUI driven and looks nice and > polished and end user friendly, so it might be worth > checking out (says the guy who has sort of written it). There is an experimental game-data-packager branch with a GUI, but it is not functionally useful. -- Jon Dowland sometime game-data-packager maintainer
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