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When combined with changes to SteamLinuxRuntime scripts, this will let
us do a new pressure-vessel release and incorporate it into
soldier/sniper/etc. depots, without having to do a whole release of
scout to provide the new pressure-vessel.

These releases don't include anything that we didn't already publish
in Gitlab artifacts, and they're relatively small, so they might as well
be public immediately (unlike the full scout releases, which we avoid
publishing before they are final, both because they are rather large and
because game developers could get compatibility issues if they build
against a non-finalized scout runtime).

Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
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steam-runtime-tools — Steam Runtime integration for the Steam client

The steam-runtime-tools library provides low-level Unix-specific tools and functionality for the Steam client, including the pressure-vessel tool that runs Steam games in containers.

To support multiple architectures (currently only i386 and x86_64 are supported), you will need to build it once for each architecture and install at least the helper tools in /usr/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0 (the libsteam-runtime-tools-0-helpers package) for every architecture in parallel.

The helper tools are located relative to the shared library, so it's OK to bundle steam-runtime-tools alongside some other stack in this layout:

anything/
    lib/
        x86_64-linux-gnu/
            libsteam-runtime-tools-0.so.0
    libexec/
        steam-runtime-tools-0/
            i386-linux-gnu-*
            x86_64-linux-gnu-*

as long as the program that is linked to libsteam-runtime-tools-0.so.0 can find it (via a RPATH or RUNPATH or by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable).

pressure-vessel — putting Steam in containers

The pressure-vessel/ subdirectory of this project contains the pressure-vessel utilities, which are used by Steam's Steam Linux Runtime compatibility tool to run games in individual game-specific containers. For background on pressure-vessel and SteamLinuxRuntime, please see: