WorldForge: Sear

Sear is not using media files from system dir

Bug #176514 reported by Alexey Torkhov on 2007-12-15

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	WorldForge: Sear	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	sear (Fedora)	Fix Released	Low	redhat-bugs #425774

Bug Description

I have installed sear from fedora packages. After starting sear it downloaded media files update and put it in ~/.sear.
After that it was starting and complain about "File not found '/home/alex/.sear//sear-media-0.6//settler//skeleton.csf'".
I had to copy media files from system dir /usr/share/sear/sear-media-0.6 to my local ~/.sear/sear-media-0.6 to get rid of this error.

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In Red Hat Bugzilla #425774, Alexey (alexey-redhat-bugs) wrote on 2007-12-15:

Description of problem:
I have installed sear from fedora packages. After starting sear it downloaded
media files update and put it in ~/.sear.
After that it was starting and complain about "File not found
'/home/alex/.sear//sear-media-0.6//settler//skeleton.csf'".
I had to copy media files from system dir /usr/share/sear/sear-media-0.6 to my
local ~/.sear/sear-media-0.6 to get rid of this error message.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sear-0.6.3-5.fc8

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
Run sear from console. Login to server.

Actual results:
Error message "File not found
'/home/alex/.sear//sear-media-0.6//settler//skeleton.csf'". It continues to run
but in-game I don't see myself (my char).

Expected results:
Sear load files also from /usr/share/sear/sear-media-0.6

Additional info:
I reported also to their bugtracker https://bugs.launchpad.net/sear/+bug/176514.
But I'm unsure if this is not but of packaging.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-12-15

Changed in sear:
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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Simon Goodall (sgoodall) wrote on 2007-12-15:

This bug has been fixed in CVS for sometime now.
It is caused by early evaluation of a path string in the cal3d model definition file which it then used to find the files that make up the model.

Please try the cvs version of Sear, or I can potentially put together a patch against version 0.6.3.

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Alexey Torkhov (atorkhov) wrote on 2007-12-16:

Thanks. I'm unsure is it how to compile sear, because I already updated to eris-1.3.13 to make ember, but sear seems to still requiring eris-1.3.12.

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Simon Goodall (sgoodall) wrote on 2007-12-16:

You can try changing the ERIS_VERSION number in configure.ac to the required value, then re-run autogen.sh, configure etc.

I have not tried compiling Sear with this version, so there may be some problems if the api has changed.

I'll just try it now myself.

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Simon Goodall (sgoodall) wrote on 2007-12-16:

Sear compiles and runs fine with eris 1.3.13.

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Wart (wart-kobold) wrote on 2007-12-19:

A patch against sear 0.6.3 would be appreciated. I can add this patch to the Fedora package and push out an update rather quickly.

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In Red Hat Bugzilla #425774, Wart (wart-redhat-bugs) wrote on 2007-12-19:

Indeed, sear does seem to be ignoring the previously installed media files.
Removing the sear-media package and letting sear download all media files to
~/.sear works, that is, the game runs and you see the characters and objects in
the game.

Thanks for the link to the bug report. I've added a comment asking for the
patch against 0.6.3. I'll also make sure that sear is using the latest version
of eris.

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Simon Goodall (sgoodall) wrote on 2008-01-01:

Patch to fix data file paths problem. Edit (10.1 KiB, text/plain)

See the attachment for a patch.

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Wart (wart-kobold) wrote on 2008-01-01:

Thanks for the patch! I'm updating the Fedora package now...

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In Red Hat Bugzilla #425774, Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs) wrote on 2008-01-29:

#10

sear-0.6.3-8.fc8, eris-1.3.13-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update sear eris'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2007-4644

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-01-30

Changed in sear:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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In Red Hat Bugzilla #425774, Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs) wrote on 2008-03-13:

#11

sear-0.6.3-8.fc8, eris-1.3.13-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-03-13