User:Wart

Michael Thomas

I'm a Tcl developer who wants to see more of the popular Tcl extensions included in Fedora, as well as more high quality Games . As a Fedora Sponsor, I am willing to help other Tcl'ers and gamers through the Fedora sponsorship process. I have written Tcl packaging guidelines and maintain the packaging for a large number of games and Tcl extensions for both Fedora and EPEL, including:

• tclhttpd - The Tcl web/application server
• tclxml - XML parsing for Tcl
• tcldom - DOM bindings for Tcl
• tdom - Another DOM API for Tcl
• tcllib - A library of utility modules for Tcl
• tklib - A library of utility modules for Tk
• tclsoap - SOAP support for Tcl
• tkcon - Tcl console
• itcl - A Tcl extension that adds object-oriented features to Tcl
• itk - A Tk extension that adds object-oriented features and megawidget support to Tk
• iwidgets - A set of megawidgets based on Itcl
• tk-tktreectrl - Tree widget for Tk
• tcl-tcldict - The 'dict' command backported from Tcl 8.5 to Tcl 8.4
• tile - Theme support for the Tk widget library
• bwidget - Extended widget set for Tk
• memchan - Memory-based channels for Tcl
• tclcompiler - Tcl bytecode compiler
• tbcload - Tcl bytecoad loader
• tclparser - Tcl syntax parser
• tclchecker - Tcl syntax checker
• tcldebugger - Tcl debugging library
• tclpro - Tcl development and debugging GUI

• spr - Statistical Pattern Recognition
• nsca - Nagios Service Check Adapter

• xpilot-ng - An addictive multiplayer space game
• tong - Another game
• neverball - 3D game
• abe - old-school C-64 style side scrolling game
• freedroidrpg - A Tux-based rpg game
• rogue - A classic roguelike game
• ularn - Yet another roguelike game
• prboom - GPL DOOM game engine
• freedoom - Freely redistributable replacement game files for DOOM
• freedoom-freedm - Deathmatch levels for freedoom
• yadex - doom level editor
• deutex - Doom wad manipulator
• bsd-games - A collection of classic text-based games
• crossfire - A mutliplayer network RPG game server
• crossfire-client - Client applications for crossfire
• crossfire-maps - Map files for crossfire
• wormux - Clone of the popular 'Worms' game
• guichan - 3D graphics and widget library
• compat-guichan05 - compatibility libraries for guichan-0.5
• manaworld - 2D MMORPG
• manaworld-music - Music for the manaworld game

• atlascpp - WorldForge message protocol
• skstream - WorldForge IO library
• libmodelfile - library for accessing various 3d model file formats
• eris - Client-side session layer for atlascpp
• mercator - Terrain library for WorldForge applications
• sage - OpenGL extensions library using SDL
• varconf - WorldForge configuration library
• wfmath - WorldForge math library
• wfut - WorldForge updater tool
• cyphesis - WorldForge game server
• sear - WorldForge client
• sear-media - media files for sear

Pending contributions waiting for approval:

• None

Future contributions still being packaged:

• tclxslt - XSLT processing library for Tcl
• ember - Another WorldForge client

Personal Fedora bookmarks

• Buildsys status - http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/index.psp
• Package review guidelines - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines
• Fedora Accounts system - https://admin.fedora.redhat.com/accounts/
• Fedora infrastructure ticket system - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/tickets

Spec file tricks for copy-and-paste

• To convert a file from some encoding to UTF-8

iconv --from=ISO-8859-1 --to=UTF-8 file.txt > file.txt.new

• To remove DOS line endings from a file in-place

sed -i 's/\r//' file.txt

• Give a desktop icon a transparent background and convert to png

BuildRequires: ImageMagick
...
convert -transparent black njamicon.ico %{name}.png

• Preserve the timestamp on a patched autotools source file to prevent unnecessary triggering of autoconf/automake/etc.

touch -r configure.ac configure.ac.stamp
%patch0 -p0
touch -r configure.ac.stamp configure.ac

• %pre/%post scripts for managing an init.d script

%pre
user_uid=<code>id -u crossfire 2>/dev/null</code>
if [ x"$user_uid" = x ]  ; then
%{_sbindir}/fedora-useradd  27 -r -s /sbin/nologin \
-d %{_datadir}/%{name} -M -c 'Crossfire Server' \
crossfire >/dev/null || :
fi

%post
/sbin/chkconfig --add crossfire

%preun
if [ "$1" -le "0" ] ; then
/sbin/service crossfire stop > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/chkconfig --del crossfire
fi

%postun
if [ "$1" -ge "1" ] ; then
/sbin/service crossfire condrestart >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

• spec file header for defining tcl package directories

%{!?tcl_sitearch: %define tcl_sitearch %{_libdir}/tcl%(echo 'puts $tcl_version' | tclsh)}
%{!?tcl_sitelib: %define tcl_sitelib %{_datadir}/tcl%(echo 'puts $tcl_version' | tclsh)}

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