steam: switch to the newer steam-runtime packaging #87243
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Valve has started releasing tarballs of the steam runtime. It seems a lot easier to download and extract a single tarball than to download a buncha debs, extract them, and splat em around a bit. Let's just use the runtime they build. It's a buncha random binary packages anyway. Also, the download url for their debs broke, so there's that too.
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I think steamArch might be subtly different now. amd64 now means download the amd64+i386 runtime snapshot because there isn't an x64-only one.
Before, iiuc, the steam-chrootenv would go out of its way to get the i386 runtime on amd64 hosts since amd64 didn't already include it. It seems like we can probably simplify that code in default.nix for the chrootenv a tiny bit now too!
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@euank Thanks for the patch! This looks a lot better than what we have now. I am sorry for not responding earlier. I haven't found any time yet to test this. I will try to give it a closer look this weekend. |
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So far everything is working for me with this patch. I will give it a few more days for more testing and to checkout your problem with zenity (it’s actually part of the chrootenv and not the runtime, so it should work). |
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I did some more testing including fresh Steam installs/configs, everything is working as expected. Thanks for this change, this is making things a lot easier. |
Valve has started releasing tarballs of the steam runtime. It seems a
lot easier to download and extract a single tarball than to download a
buncha debs, extract them, and splat em around a bit.
Let's just use the runtime they build. It's a buncha random binary
packages either way.
Also, the download url for their debs broke, so there's that too.
Motivation for this change
Valve deletes debs from their repos apparently (see #86892 and #86358).
@tadfisher suggested using the steam-runtime images valve builds in that thread too, and I think it's a great idea!
So yeah, that's what this PR does.
Things done
sandboxinnix.confon non-NixOS linux)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"./result/bin/)nix path-info -Sbefore and after)Note that I don't actually know how to test the steam-runtime stuff fully. I verified that
steam-runseems to give me an environment that looks right? I think?I verified that a sample game launched correctly (Factorio specifically) both via steam and via
steam-run, and it ofc didn't launch outside of the chroot environment.Running it did print this error:
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/setup.sh: line 22: zenity: command not foundI have no clue if that's new because I can't get the old steam package to work because one of the debs won't download.