Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On 08/06/2009 10:30 PM, Ryan Rix wrote:
> 1) When packaging a game, is it safe to assume that the user who will be
> running this is a member of the games group?
> 2) If not, what is the best method of applying setgid to the
> /usr/bin/ivan in the spec file?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games/Packaging has a section that
covers this.
Thanks, this is exactly waht I was looking for!
> 3) Is it acceptable by review standards to have a zero length file in the
> rpm, even if rpmlint moans about it? It's a high score file under
> /var/games that apparently cannot be created by the main executable. I
> tried patching the source to create the file automatically, but I
> couldn't figure out how; it's probably has something to do with
> permissions. The mode on the fopen call was already "wb" which
'should'
> work...
If you have a good reason to do so, just put a comment there in the spec
file and do it. If a reviewer points it out, just explain why you did
what you did.
> 4) Are packaging guidelines for games spelt out anywhere?
Just the URL I posted above.
~spot
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