Mono Stack on Fedora

[Jacob Kroon]

Justin Conover wrote:

>On 5/30/05, Keith Sharp <kms at passback.co.uk> wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 10:38 -0700, Scott wrote:
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>>>Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
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>>>>lør, 28.05.2005 kl. 03.29 skrev seth vidal:
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>>>>>On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 18:04 -0700, Teak Billard wrote:
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>>>>>>Would Fedora Extras be the place to have Mono
>>>>>>available then or another repository such as Dag?
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>>>>>fedora extras is under the same legal restrictions as fedora core.
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>>>>Hmm.. What about some "semi-official" repo like livna, but with
>>>>mono-stuff (Mpackage?)
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>>>>Kyrre
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>>>I notice that the mono site has a yum repo for FC3, Is anything else required?
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>>You would need to get the SRPMs and rebuild them for FC4T3 (and FC4
>>eventually).  It would also make sense to go over the SPEC files and
>>make sure they were meeting the requirements of the Extras project.
>>Finally you should check there is nothing the SPECs/RPMs that would
>>preclude them moving to Core should the legal/patents issues ever be
>>cleared up.
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>>Keith.
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>I have used/rebuilt on rawhide nrpms.net in the past, the only problem
>I had was building on x86_64, has a yum.repo for just mono too, 
>Matthew Hall has i386/ppc for fc 2/3.  You could look at his spec
>files and start from there, or contact him for help/suggestions, small
>chance he would want to start something like Mpackage or maybe help
>maintain the packages. (not sure)
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>http://www.nrpms.net/
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>http://www.nrpms.net/Docs/Yum/
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>"If you just want access to mono packages, you need to perform the
>following command (as the root user):
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>rpm -ivh http://repo.nrpms.net/nrpms-mono-release/1/RPMS/nrpms-mono-release-1-1.1.fc3.nr.noarch.rpm
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For what its worth, Livna already has spec-files for Mono and Gtk-Sharp:

Mono - http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330
Gtk-Sharp - http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408

Although the gtk-sharp.spec file seems to be unaccesible at the moment.

/Jacob