games/jools does not run

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sun Jan 4 16:09:02 UTC 2009


Rainer Hurling <rhurlin at gwdg.de> writes:

> Searching the internet the error was described for other systems
> too. Obviously the game needs read access for all users to the
> mentioned font file:
>
> #cd /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pygame
> #ls -l freesansbold.ttf
> -rwx------  1 root  wheel  - 98600  7 Jul 07:58:09 2008 freesansbold.ttf
>
>
> Changing it with 'chmod a+r freesansbold.ttf' does the trick. Now
> jools plays like a charm. It is a nice little game.
>
> Could the maintainer or someone else update the port, please?

This change should actually be in devel/py-game, not games/jools.

There are other files installed with the same incorrect privileges,
which should probably be fixed as well.

I suggest you file a PR.


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