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I seem to remember a game, hunt, which had a client and server side. The
client side is still in Slackware (bsd-games-2.17) but what happened to
the server (huntd)?

This might be upstream, which has huntd:
https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames
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On Fri, 08 May 2026 22:21:02 -0400, jayjwa wrote:

I seem to remember a game, hunt, which had a client and server side. The client side is still in Slackware (bsd-games-2.17) but what happened to
the server (huntd)?

This might be upstream, which has huntd:
https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames

Slacware stable 15.0 has the package bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-3 which
contains huntd:

fgrep huntd /var/log/packages/* /var/log/packages/bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-3:usr/man/man6/huntd.6.gz /var/log/packages/bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-3:usr/sbin/huntd

Slackware current is still on bsd-games version 2.17 but has a newer
package: y/bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6.txz

Nothing in the ChangeLog.txt mentions anything about removing huntd from bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6, bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-5 or
bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-4. Do you mean that huntd is missing from Slackware current?

regards Henrik
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jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:

I seem to remember a game, hunt, which had a client and server side. The client side is still in Slackware (bsd-games-2.17) but what happened to
the server (huntd)?

This might be upstream, which has huntd:
https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames

Isn't it at /usr/sbin/huntd? It is on my system, as part of bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6

Rob Komar
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Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> writes:

Isn't it at /usr/sbin/huntd? It is on my system, as part of bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6

Ahh it is. I was looking for the binary in /usr/games but why didn't I
see it with slackpkg last night? Today I see it. Sorry for the noise; it
is there.
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On 5/9/26 1:43 PM, jayjwa wrote:

Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> writes:

Isn't it at /usr/sbin/huntd? It is on my system, as part of
bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6

Ahh it is. I was looking for the binary in /usr/games but why didn't I
see it with slackpkg last night? Today I see it. Sorry for the noise; it
is there.

With all the traffic on here these days, it was nice having a little
noise :D
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On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:21:25 -0400, haldir wrote:

On 5/9/26 1:43 PM, jayjwa wrote:

Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> writes:

Isn't it at /usr/sbin/huntd? It is on my system, as part of
bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6

Ahh it is. I was looking for the binary in /usr/games but why didn't I
see it with slackpkg last night? Today I see it. Sorry for the noise;
it is there.

With all the traffic on here these days, it was nice having a little
noise :D

its not really noise, they're using the hunt game to track down slackware
15.1 since it was promised it would never be 5 years between releases
again, yet here we are, several months past 4 years... I suppose its not
5 years.... yet :)
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On 5/12/26 03:44, noel wrote:

On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:21:25 -0400, haldir wrote:

On 5/9/26 1:43 PM, jayjwa wrote:

Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> writes:

Isn't it at /usr/sbin/huntd? It is on my system, as part of
bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6

Ahh it is. I was looking for the binary in /usr/games but why didn't I
see it with slackpkg last night? Today I see it. Sorry for the noise;
it is there.

With all the traffic on here these days, it was nice having a little
noise :D

its not really noise, they're using the hunt game to track down slackware 15.1 since it was promised it would never be 5 years between releases
again, yet here we are, several months past 4 years... I suppose its not
5 years.... yet :)

Someone speculated 15.1 would come when the 5.15 lts kernel expires.

Makes sense to me.
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On 2026-05-12 at 05:44 ADT, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:21:25 -0400, haldir wrote:

On 5/9/26 1:43 PM, jayjwa wrote:

Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> writes:

Isn't it at /usr/sbin/huntd? It is on my system, as part of
bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6

Ahh it is. I was looking for the binary in /usr/games but why didn't I
see it with slackpkg last night? Today I see it. Sorry for the noise;
it is there.

With all the traffic on here these days, it was nice having a little
noise :D

its not really noise, they're using the hunt game to track down slackware 15.1 since it was promised it would never be 5 years between releases
again, ...

Who promised that? Pat?
Jim
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On Tue, 12 May 2026 18:49:49 -0300, Jim Diamond wrote:

On 2026-05-12 at 05:44 ADT, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:21:25 -0400, haldir wrote:

On 5/9/26 1:43 PM, jayjwa wrote:

Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> writes:

Isn't it at /usr/sbin/huntd? It is on my system, as part of
bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6

Ahh it is. I was looking for the binary in /usr/games but why didn't
I see it with slackpkg last night? Today I see it. Sorry for the
noise; it is there.

With all the traffic on here these days, it was nice having a little
noise :D

its not really noise, they're using the hunt game to track down
slackware 15.1 since it was promised it would never be 5 years between
releases again, ...

Who promised that? Pat?
Jim

the one and only, cant remember if it was in readme or on LQ
... actually the changelog does _sort of_ mention it too


"Wed Feb 2 22:22:22 UTC 2022
Slackware 15.0 x86_64 stable is released!

Another too-long development cycle is behind us after we bit off more than
we could chew and then had to shine it up to a high-gloss finish.
Hopefully we've managed to get the tricky parts out of the way so that
we'll be able to see a 15.1 incremental update after a far shorter
development cycle"

Since Pat typcially has 3 RC's and freezes the tree, 15.0 RC1 was in
August '21, RC3 locked, was in Jan '22, working on that theory even if
Pat called RC1 in 5 minutes time, we wont see 15.1 until Jan '27

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On 2026-05-13 at 00:00 ADT, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

On Tue, 12 May 2026 18:49:49 -0300, Jim Diamond wrote:

On 2026-05-12 at 05:44 ADT, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:

On Mon, 11 May 2026 12:21:25 -0400, haldir wrote:

On 5/9/26 1:43 PM, jayjwa wrote:

Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> writes:

Isn't it at /usr/sbin/huntd? It is on my system, as part of
bsd-games-2.17-x86_64-6

Ahh it is. I was looking for the binary in /usr/games but why didn't >>>>> I see it with slackpkg last night? Today I see it. Sorry for the
noise; it is there.

With all the traffic on here these days, it was nice having a little
noise :D

its not really noise, they're using the hunt game to track down
slackware 15.1 since it was promised it would never be 5 years between
releases again, ...

Who promised that? Pat?
Jim

the one and only, cant remember if it was in readme or on LQ
... actually the changelog does _sort of_ mention it too

"Wed Feb 2 22:22:22 UTC 2022
Slackware 15.0 x86_64 stable is released!

Another too-long development cycle is behind us after we bit off more than
we could chew and then had to shine it up to a high-gloss finish.
Hopefully we've managed to get the tricky parts out of the way so that
we'll be able to see a 15.1 incremental update after a far shorter development cycle"

Since Pat typcially has 3 RC's and freezes the tree, 15.0 RC1 was in
August '21, RC3 locked, was in Jan '22, working on that theory even if
Pat called RC1 in 5 minutes time, we wont see 15.1 until Jan '27

I don't read that "hopefully" as a promise.

Which is too bad, because it would be nice to see another release before
15.0 is completely deprecated.

I don't know if you read
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/requests-for-current-next-15-0-15-1-a-4175706801/
but (IMHO) there are far too many people on that list requesting far too
many insignificant updates to far too many relatively inconsequential
pieces of software. (Yes, there are also some people pointing out
important updates to important pieces of software.)

At some point I hope Pat starts ignoring most of the new requests,
otherwise there will never be a 15.1 or 16.0. But I'm not holding my
breath.

Jim
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To: Jim Diamond

Jim Diamond wrote to alt.os.linux.slackware <=-

its not really noise, they're using the hunt game to track down
slackware 15.1 since it was promised it would never be 5 years between
releases again, ...

Who promised that? Pat?
Jim

the one and only, cant remember if it was in readme or on LQ
... actually the changelog does _sort of_ mention it too

"Wed Feb 2 22:22:22 UTC 2022
Slackware 15.0 x86_64 stable is released!

Another too-long development cycle is behind us after we bit off more than we could chew and then had to shine it up to a high-gloss finish.
Hopefully we've managed to get the tricky parts out of the way so that
we'll be able to see a 15.1 incremental update after a far shorter development cycle"

Since Pat typcially has 3 RC's and freezes the tree, 15.0 RC1 was in
August '21, RC3 locked, was in Jan '22, working on that theory even if
Pat called RC1 in 5 minutes time, we wont see 15.1 until Jan '27

I don't read that "hopefully" as a promise.

Which is too bad, because it would be nice to see another release
before 15.0 is completely deprecated.

I don't know if you read

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/requests-for-curre nt-next-15-0-15-1-a-4175706801/ but (IMHO) there are far too many
people on that list requesting far too many insignificant updates to
far too many relatively inconsequential pieces of software. (Yes,
there are also some people pointing out important updates to important pieces of software.)

At some point I hope Pat starts ignoring most of the new requests, otherwise there will never be a 15.1 or 16.0. But I'm not holding my breath.

Yeah, this shit is getting ridiculous.

Version 15.0 won't even run on modern hardware. Usually because of
video issues, as far as I can tell, and that can be corrected, but is
too hard for many folks.

It's nearing the point where it's close to having to jump ship.

Come on Pat. Get it together.




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