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  Hunt (game) jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-05-08 22:21 -0400
    Re: Hunt (game) Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2026-05-09 06:51 +0000
    Re: Hunt (game) Robert Komar <robk@robpc4.robk-home.org> - 2026-05-09 01:09 -0400
      Re: Hunt (game) jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-05-09 13:43 -0400
        Re: Hunt (game) haldir <mordors9@gmail.com> - 2026-05-11 12:21 -0400
          Re: Hunt (game) noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-05-12 18:44 +1000
            Re: Hunt (game) "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-05-12 06:18 -0500
            Re: Hunt (game) Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-05-12 18:49 -0300
              Re: Hunt (game) noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-05-13 13:00 +1000
                Re: Hunt (game) Jim Diamond <zsd@jdvb.ca> - 2026-05-13 20:32 -0300
                  Re: Hunt (game) "Gamgee" <gamgee@palantirbbs.ddns.net.remove-6zb-this> - 2026-05-16 21:45 -0500

#35573 — Hunt (game)

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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#35574

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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#35575

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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#35576

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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#35577

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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#35578

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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#35579

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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#35580

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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#35581

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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#35583

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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#35585

  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

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

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

 JD> I don't know if you read

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

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