Bug#691741: Provides: boom-engine, but does not supply /usr/games/boom

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Fri Nov 9 13:07:54 UTC 2012


Am 09.11.2012 09:37, schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> That way, if you have a doom.wad in your current directory and type
> "vavoom -iwad doom.wad" it will take this file. If the file is absent,
> then it will take the one from the next directory in the iwaddirs
> array, i.e. typically /u/s/g/d/doom.wad. Thus, relative paths works as
> before, but precedence is taken by files that satisfy the path based
> on the current working directory.

Erm, we can have all of this without any source code changes if we 
just changed the -iwaddir parameter in the /u/g/vavoom wrapper script 
to read "-iwaddir . / /usr/share/games/doom/", i.e. we merely add "." 
and "/" to take care of relative and absolute paths respectively.

  - Fabian



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