Linux Snapshots

bobablob · Post by **bobablob** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:27 am

Evening, everyone . . . or good morning to the internationals =)

I just got Ubuntu up and running. I can check out the source and compile it, but I'm just wondering why the Debian / RPM packages point to non-existent files. Any idea?

bobablob · Post by **bobablob** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:42 pm

No word on why the Debian Snapshot link is broken?

Thanks...

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:16 pm

Could you be a bit more specific? What exactly is broken and where?

bobablob · Post by **bobablob** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:34 pm

Thanks for responding, Fingolfin. I'm a big fan!

Going to: ScummVM SVN Snapshots
Clicking on: Debian packages
Returns (and has for at least 5 days):

An error has been encountered in accessing this page.

1. Server: www.scummvm.org
2. URL path: /daily/debian/
3. Error notes: File does not exist: /home/groups/s/sc/scummvm/htdocs/daily/debian/
4. Error type: 404
5. Request method: GET
6. Request query string:
7. Time: 2006-06-05 11:27:07 PDT (1149532027)

bobablob · Post by **bobablob** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:18 am

Is that just a generic Sourceforge page? Are there never supposed to be Deb packages available?

bobablob · Post by **bobablob** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:12 pm

Is this question really that much of a puzzler?

clem · Post by **clem** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:27 pm

forum rule #11?

bobablob · Post by **bobablob** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:37 pm

I believe I abided by the Forum rules. 11 prohibits posting 5 minutes afterwards. My initial post was 4 days ago. There was a 15 hour gap between my last two posts.

Anyway, if someone knows the answer, please chime in. Thanks.

olki · Post by **olki** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:49 pm

I haven't looked into the problem, but my best guess is that the debian builds used source code from CVS. We switched to Subversion a couple of months ago, so that might have broken the daily build system. Again, I'm only guessing. It could be something completely different.

In any case I don't really see the point of having daily builds for linux distributions. Practically every linux installation has a compiler and the necessary dev tools installed.

bobablob · Post by **bobablob** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:36 pm

Thanks, Olki, I appreciate the response. True enough, I can compile the source, tho I can't make a Debian package due to some TeX issues. Anyway, beggers can't be choosers.

Good luck with the project. Can't wait to see what else you guys have up your sleeves.

olki · Post by **olki** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:21 pm

From my own experience, it's generally a bad idea to mix official debian packages with non-official ones. What I do is to create a symlink from /usr/local/bin to the binary in my source tree. It's really not so much of a problem since you only only need one file for ScummVM (unless you use dynamic plugins).