mono-2.4 and ppc64 status

[Xavier Lamien]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Xavier Lamien
<laxathom at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mono-2.4 has been built for ppc64 in F11 and devel.  So people should be
>> able to start rebuilding packages to include ppc64 as well as the other
>> arches.  There's a few wrinkles to watch out for:
>>
>> 1) Packages with dependencies will have to be built in dependency order.
>>  For instance, a lot of packages depend on the gtk-sharp2 bindings and
>> those haven't been built yet.
>>
>> 2) Because of the imminent release of F11 we're in a freeze state.  This
>>  means getting dependencies into the Fedora11 buildroot will require
>> people to request tagging explicitly.  This also means that if you
>> rebuild your package for F11 with ppc64 support and later you have to
>> get this package tagged into the release, all of the packages it depends
>> on will need to be tagged in as well (otherwise your ppc64 build will
>> have broken deps).
>>
>> With these in mind, I'd recommend people start rebuilding their mono
>> packages on ppc64 in the devel branch.  Keep track of the dependency
>> chain you encounter.  Then perform your builds in the Fedora 11 branch
>> as updates after the release.  I'm not a mono-sig member, though, so if
>> you guys decide something else makes sense, just be sure to come up with
>> a plan so we don't release with a bunch of broken dependencies.
>>
>> -Toshio
>>
>
> gtk-sharp2 has been built for ppc64 and tag has been requested.
> other packages will be rebuild once gtk-sharp2 tagged.
>

Heads up,

gtk-sharp2 has been tagged and the following packages
has been rebuilt for ppc64 availability.
The list is a bit short for now as many of them need gnome-sharp (tag requested)

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gnome-sharp-2_24_0-4_fc11
gtksourceview2-sharp-1_0-5_svn89788_3_fc11
gecko-sharp2-0_13-3_fc11
webkit-sharp-0_2-2_fc11
monosim-1_3_0_2-3_fc11
avahi-0_6_25-2_fc11 (including sub-packages)
mono-addins-0_4-7_20091702svn127062_1_fc11
gmime-2_4_3-5_fc11
bless-0_6_0-3_fc11
dbus-sharp-0_63-12_fc11
themonospot-0_7_1_1-3_fc11

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