Re: Mono 4 issues and Mono 5

[Radka Janekova]

Awesome Timotheus, thank you for all this work on mono!


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Radka

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*Radka Janeková*
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 9:50 PM Timotheus Pokorra <mailinglists(a)tpokorra.de&gt;
wrote:

>  Dear members of the Mono SIG group,
>
>  I have been working in the past week on building Mono 5 for Fedora Rawhide.
>
>  This has been made possible by the work of directhex, who fixed the build
>  for Debian.
>  For details on his work see https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/7445
>
>  The discussion lives at
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436896
>
>  Unfortunately we are too late for the upcoming Fedora 30, since the change
>  affects quite a number of packages.
>  For Mono 4, we needed a bootstrap build, and filed it as a system wide
>  change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mono_4
>  I will prepare a similar change proposal for Mono 5 for Fedora 31.
>
>  Please can you look at the code, and evaluate if the package is properly
>  built?
>  The source is still here:
>  https://github.com/tpokorra/mono-5.x-fedora/tree/master/mono-5.18
>  After the change proposal gets accepted, I would put it in the proper
>  source control in https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mono
>  The package is built here:
>  https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/tpokorra/mono-5.18/
>
>  Another issue I want to bring up is the state of Mono 4 in Fedora 30.
>  I probably committed a mistake, by disabling the ppc64 builds for Mono due
>  to a long standing bug on that architecture.
>  I just did not want mono to be FTBFS for yet another Fedora release.
>  See the details here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1588734
>  It seems, that now all packages depending on Mono cannot be built anymore,
>  because they still have ppc64 enabled.
>  What do you think, is this really a problem, and if yes, how can we
>  resolve it?
>  In Rawhide, things should go back to normal as soon as Mono 5 has landed.
>  Should we consider porting Mono 5 back to Fedora 30 after the Fedora 30
>  release? But that would contradict calling it a system wide change...
>  Or we disable ppc64 in Fedora 30 altogether? It should be available in
>  Fedora 31 again.
>
>  Any suggestions and help in testing and evaluating are welcome!
>
>  All the best,
>    Timotheus
>
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