Packaging "The Dark Mod": recursive/multiple URLs source

Packaging "The Dark Mod": recursive/multiple URLs source

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi,

I'm trying to package The Dark Mod (http://www.thedarkmod.com/).
Like many free software games, the data and the engine are separate.

I've managed to build the engine.

The game uses a special program called "tdm_update" to fetch the game
data from mirrors.

Here is the official list of mirrors:

  http://mirrors.thedarkmod.com/

And here is the game data from one of the mirrors:

  http://mirror.helium.in-berlin.de/thedarkmod/release/

Question: is there a way in Guix to specify that the source is the whole
tree found at the URL?

If not, can anyone think of a way to handle this?

So far, the only idea I have is to use locally-declared inputs with
origins, like in the texlive-dvips package.

Thoughts?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Packaging "The Dark Mod": recursive/multiple URLs source

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Anyways, the game data does not seem to be versioned.  I guess that it
does not make much sense to package the data for Guix if it's not
reproducible in the first place.

I'll package the updated then, at least the users will then be able to
use it to install the game data.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Packaging "The Dark Mod": recursive/multiple URLs source

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Patch #35234 sent.
It works! :)

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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