[SCM] Packaging for bzflag branch, master, updated. debian/2.4.2+ds1-1

Ryan Kavanagh rak at debian.org
Wed Aug 1 18:41:34 UTC 2012


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit fd82d7f361f84c4c65e3ea0eda47e33ea9489ba3
Author: Ryan Kavanagh <rak at debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jul 24 20:02:07 2012 -0400

    Update README.Debian to reference the init file and RUN_AT_STARTUP

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 4cb9086..283bd86 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -4,11 +4,16 @@ BZFlag for Debian
 - the data files are stored in /usr/share/bzflag/data
 
 If you wish to:
-- play by yourself
-- play amongst a small group of people on a private network
-- provide a server so that anyone on the Internet may play with you
-
-you will need to install the package bzflag-server
+ - play by yourself
+ - play amongst a small group of people on a private network
+ - provide a server so that anyone on the Internet may play with you
+you will need to install the package bzflag-server. Since the bzflag server,
+bzfs, can be started from the bzflag client, it is not started by default on
+Debian systems. To have init(8) start bzflag by default, please change the value
+of the 'RUN_AT_STARTUP' flag in /etc/default/bzflag to 'yes'. You can customise
+this server by modifying the 'OPTIONS' flag in /etc/default/bzflag. By default,
+we start a free-for-all server which does not advertise itself on the bzflag
+server list.
 
 bzflag uses XFree86's VidMode extension to change resoultions
 `on the fly'. Some people have reported problems with this but we have
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ window.
 If you are using a passthrough card with acceleration (e.g. VooDoo, etc.)
 use the `-3dfx' option to make use of it.
 
-You can also use the MESA_GLX_FX enviornment variable to do something
+You can also use the MESA_GLX_FX environment variable to do something
 similar. Set MESA_GLX_FX to `fullscreen'. Remember if you use a Bourne
 shell (or compatible) like /bin/sh, /bin/ksh or /bin/bash
 you need to do the following:
@@ -39,4 +44,6 @@ If you use a Csh style sheel like /bin/csh or /bin/tcsh use this:
 % setenv MESA_GLX_FX fullscreen
 
 original by Anand Kumria <wildfire at progsoc.uts.edu.au>
-modified by Tim Riker <Tim at Rikers.org>
+modified by Tim Riker <Tim at Rikers.org> and others.
+
+ -- Ryan Kavanagh <rak at debian.org>, Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:05:14 -0400

-- 
Packaging for bzflag



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