Angband packaging for Fedora

Test project using Angband to learn how to package things for Fedora

Prepare

This project uses Podman to containarize the work, mainly because I wanted to test many dependency packages and didn't want to leave them installed on my machine. Also it's a good chance to learn to use podman since I already know how to use Docker.

The angband repo is added as a submodule pointing to the latest stable version, so to prepare this project, run the following command.

git submodule update --init --recursive

Standalone deploy

This is a test build to check what things are needed to safely build the current version of Angband.

Running the standalone_deploy.sh script does the following:

• Builds a base image on your local system using Podman with the required dependencies
• Runs the container, with the following permissions
  • Read access to angband source code
  • Write access to an ./out folder
    • Thx http://tutorialworks.com/podman-rootless-volumes/ for reference on howto
• Applies the patches in the patch folder
• Builds & installs in the ./out folder

The applied patches are the following:

• Add a TTF font as default for the SDL2 version.
  • Temporary workaround to angband/angband#5079
• Upgrade the ncursesw5 requirement to ncursesw6 (Fedora specific).
• Fix so that the result can be moved from the compilation path.

To test, enter the out folder and runa

# X11
./src/angband -mx11

# Wayland
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland ./src/angband -msdl2

# ncurses
./src/angband -mgcu