This is a buildable version of xball. Reason for building this was mainly to learn a little more about debugging some simple game programs. Also apply some known patches that also helps import this to Mageia. This is a game that more or less goes in the educational/simulation category. Main bugs of interest that are fixed are: * Buildable using autoconf,automake,configure which allows this game to be easily adaptable to RPM distros like Mageia. Tested on Mageia 6 and 8. "Was" limited to Debian aligned: https://repology.org/project/xball/versions * Added freedesktop icons so it can be selected from the menu. * rundemo installed in /usr as well as manual into manual area. * progressively fixed a few bugs and also run some 'make check' on those. * git patches pretty much explains what got fixed up to now. TODO: colorized balls needs to be modernized, for a later patch.
Thank you for your interest. This looks as if it is your own creation. Looking at your link, it seems to need a lot of work to create a package from it. "a buildable version of xball" is not an encouraging starting point. https://github.com/JoesCat/xball/releases/download/v3.1.0/xball-dist-3.1.0.tar.gz If you want it in Mageia, would you be willing to become a packager and do that work? Our packagers have more than enough on their hands at present to take on extra things.
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30092
Thanks for the compliments Lewis. I did not create xball, but with a bit of patience and debugging, I did find room for a few improvements. :-) I wasn't expecting this to be a significant amount of work involved in creating an RPM build, but then again, I never did build an RPM package either. Gotcha on the more than enough on their hands I'll read through the packager documentation first to see what's involved...
Assigning temporarily to myself to but it on hold; hoping I do not loose it!
CC: lewyssmith => (none)Assignee: bugsquad => lewyssmithStatus: NEW => NEEDINFO
Created attachment 13186 [details] RPM SPEC file for xball Followed instructions on building a spec file. This should create the SRPM and RPM files for xball. rpmbuild -ba seemed to run okay and exited with zero errors. I just need to start a pristine mageia, like a live distro to see if it's fine. I suspect I may need to add another two "build requires", and "requires"
spec file seems fine. x64 binary need work