I have APT packaged vanilla CVS Circle over the past few weeks and will continue to sync it with current CVS snapshots for the forseeable future. I don't see the binary packages being of much interest to anyone, but I put them up for testing purposes. The main usefulness is the ability to act as a package template so admins can easily manage compiles, upgrades, rollbacks, et cetera through dpkg and related tools. My minimal changes quoted from README.Debian: * Installed files to necessary locations to meet Debian Policy. * Renamed executables to have less generic names. * Modified autorun to check circlemud.conf for preferences. * Built a few extra safety checks into autorun. * Added a pidfile creation routine to comm.c and a SysVinit script. * Moved licheck routine to installation rather than compilation. * Configure implementor account at installation for security. For those wanting to add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list you can use the following binary and source lines respectively: deb http://www.yuggoth.org/debian-CCL unstable unofficial deb-src http://www.yuggoth.org/debian-CCL unstable unofficial If you want to download the packages via FTP, HTTP or HTTPS: proto://www.yuggoth.org/debian-CCL/pool/unofficial/c/circlemud/ Another related question... is it taboo to distribute compiled CircleMUD binaries? I don't see it covered under the license FAQ so I'm assuming it's okay. I guess I typically don't see them because they're just not popular (obviously nobody wants to run a stock MUD, as this is not Circle's strong suit). Questions? Suggestions? Bug reports for my tweaks? Just let me know! -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); SMTP(fungi@yuggoth.org); ICQ(114362511); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); IRC(fungi@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); PGP(9E8DFF2E4F5995F8FEADDC5829ABF7441FB84657); } -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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