Nightly flatpak builds

[Atreides]

Ironically I'm not actually updating master since a long while since the version I have is roughly equivalent to (and works like) 1.17.26 which has to serve me as 1.18 for a while still until I find an alternate way (other than flatpak) to keep 1.16.

You can just download a flatpak bundle from https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/acti ... 9721362640 for example. (I think you need to be signed in to github though.)

That's pretty cool, but I wonder how to install it without overwriting 1.16.11 (I looked for the 1.16.12 flatpak bundle but it wasn't there), would using the override=REF work? If I call it org.wesnoth.Wesnoth18? Or does it need the arch and branch (x64/stable) too?

[Soliton]

Install with flatpak --user install wesnoth.flatpak or without --user if you want it system-wide. All CI builds are a different branch so it shouldn't overwrite anything.

Pretty sure you cannot easily (or perhaps at all) rename the app in a flatpak. You can start a certain branch with flatpak run org.wesnoth.Wesnoth//ci-1.18.2 or so.

[Atreides]

Install with flatpak --user install wesnoth.flatpak or without --user if you want it system-wide. All CI builds are a different branch so it shouldn't overwrite anything.

Pretty sure you cannot easily (or perhaps at all) rename the app in a flatpak. You can start a certain branch with flatpak run org.wesnoth.Wesnoth//ci-1.18.2 or so.

Oh it's a separate branch? (//ci-1.18.2 I guess) That's excellent. Superb! Magnificent! I'm fortunately familiar with flatpak branches since I currently have //1.14 //stable & //master branches already!

However I'm confused now. When I looked up the commands it seemed that I need to

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flatpak build-import-bundle LOCATION wesnoth.flatpak

for a bundle like this?

The import bundle command is where I found

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--ref=REF

for altering the name. That now of course seems unneeded if it is a different branch though.

[Soliton]

You don't want to build a bundle you want to install it.

[Atreides]

Thanks, it works! Installed as user this time and now I wish I'd done that with the earlier ones too. Much more convenient. (As an old MSDOS user I'll never get used to this multi-user aspect of Linux...)