Bug 747093

Summary: Review Request: physfs2 - Library to provide abstract access to various archives
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Component: Package ReviewAssignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tom "spot" Callaway 2011-10-18 19:03:47 UTC
Spec URL: http://spot.fedorapeople.org/physfs2.spec
SRPM URL: http://spot.fedorapeople.org/physfs2-2.0.2-1.fc16.src.rpm
Description: 

PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. It is
intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired by Quake
3's file subsystem. The programmer defines a "write directory" on the physical
filesystem. No file writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that
write directory, for security. For example, an embedded scripting language
cannot write outside of this path if it uses PhysFS for all of its I/O, which
means that untrusted scripts can run more safely. Symbolic links can be
disabled as well, for added safety. For file reading, the programmer lists
directories and archives that form a "search path". Once the search path is
defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem. This makes
for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file directly on
the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will override a
previous archive on a per-file basis. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you
platform-abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the user's
home directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running, etc.

PACKAGER NOTE:
This is physfs v2, not compatible with physfs v1 (already packaged in Fedora as "physfs"). There are several dependencies which still use v1 and have no plans to port to v2. This package is designed to provide v2 of physfs, but not conflict with the existing v1 package.

Also, it needs lzma-sdk457 in order to build (bz747092).

Comment 1 Nelson Marques 2011-11-04 09:45:26 UTC
Looks fine to me, though once more 2 questions:

 - Why the unstripped binaries?
 - Does Fedora accepts packages with binaries that don't provide manual pages?

 NM

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2011-12-09 19:29:41 UTC
I'm closing this one out, since it is clear on a second look that 2.0.2 is backwards compatible.