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Reply on 20-10-2006 13:50:06 <<<> >>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:47 PM, in message , "Dominique Leuenberger" wrote:

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Dear Holger, dear all

As we already talked together, we had the Idea to move the game UFO:AI to the Games:Strategy:Turn Based directory, where it would perfectly fit.

For this I have several questions, especially related to the ufoai- data package:

- Can there be a separate repository only for ufoai- data, to avoid it to be built for all platforms (like 10.1, 10.0, SLED and so on)? In this special Repo of course, nothing else would have to be built. The problem with UFO:AI is the excessive amount of data files being pushed to the client (160MB!) that should not be duplicated to multiple repos if possible (see also discussion in the buildservice- mailinglist about this)? Maybe something like games:strategy:turnbased:uniform data packages

Not sure if this can be done. Maybe a single project building ufo:ai-data stuff only (for one distribution) could provide the noarch package to every distribution that is subscribed for that project.

However, I don't like it, as it's not really convenient for the users, they have to subscribe to two channels.

Holger

Holger, I know what you mean and indeed it is not the most conveniant way for the end user. But then, it's the only way up to now to avoid the need to replicate the DATA File to all 5 Platforms, that are currently configured in Games:strategy:turn-based. If I link the package just in like this, it will create DATA Files of 800MB, which we all agree is way to much. So I suggest for the time being, to create a Repository games:strategy:turn-based:datafiles and hope that the feature that Adrian Schroeter mentioned here: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2006-10/msg00136.html I would put a description in the %Description part of the SPEC file of UFO:AI for this. Any suggestions? Dominique