Backported Winetricks

Just decided to check the Winetricks version after reading RPS's article about Gaming on Linux (Nice to hear good feedback from non-Linux users).  It wasn't complicated to backport the precise PPA package.  Just changed the compat to 5, the control file for debhelper and maintainer stuff, and the changelog file.  Nothing much out of the ordinary.  I thought I may have to do something about the .install file but turns out I didn't.

Wine 1.5.10 Backporting Notes

As I said earlier, I had some major problems getting it to package, but after two days of mucking around I've finally gotten something working.  All that after the jump.

Well that was wild!

Two days of work and finally have Wine 1.5.10 installed on the box.  It's got a few minor issues, but probably things I'll fix when I rebuild this.  I'll post notes on what I did, but the advantages of using this new build script is that I can slip in patches with ease now without having to figure out how to get it running.  I learned many things including the fact that my dpkg is outdated.

Backporting Wine 1.5

Spent quite a few hours on the backporting biz on wine 1.5.  The structure is totally different so there's a raft of changes to how I managed to backport it.  I'll be posting the changes soon for my own references, but there's definitely quite a few things to do here.

It's building right now, but who knows if it gets to the end?

A few short notes on the backport of Wine

Before I forget, there were a few nuances with the packages I backported (into Karmic) from the Wine PPA site that Scott Ritchie provided (for Maverick and other Ubuntu releases).

Firstly, the orig tar gzipped file had wine folder name while the diff expected wine1.3 which is the release name. I had to repackage the orig.tar.gz file to use wine1.3 folder name.

On the control file, I had to deal with debhelper version checking which I'm pretty sure is caused by the new Ubuntu releases moving to newer versions of files. I saw two other new items, gcc-4.5-multilib and oss4-dev of which I removed as dependency. I'm fairly certain that Wine will compile on old GCC 3.x so, the requirement of GCC 4 looked a little silly from my point of view. I don't plan to release the package to the masses anyway, so it won't hurt anybody but me.

Final touches, I updated the changelog also to reflect karmic version numbering and then removed the reference CC="gcc-4.5" on the rules file to avoid forcing GCC 4 when building. Everything built fine and wine is running well after packaging and installing.