More Mono confusion

[Paul Howarth]

I have a mono-based package called "lat", which I believe follows the
current packaging guidelines, i.e. it installs lat.exe and its
associated DLLs into %{_libdir}/lat.

The package has dependencies on some mono packages from Core,
particularly avahi-sharp. On x86_64, the avahi-sharp package contains:

/usr/lib/mono/avahi-sharp
/usr/lib/mono/avahi-sharp/avahi-sharp.dll
/usr/lib/mono/gac/avahi-sharp
/usr/lib/mono/gac/avahi-sharp/1.0.0.0__4d116c78973743f5
/usr/lib/mono/gac/avahi-sharp/1.0.0.0__4d116c78973743f5/avahi-sharp.dll
/usr/lib/mono/gac/avahi-sharp/1.0.0.0__4d116c78973743f5/avahi-sharp.dll.config
/usr/lib/mono/gac/avahi-sharp/1.0.0.0__4d116c78973743f5/avahi-sharp.dll.mdb
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/avahi-sharp.pc

So avahi-sharp.dll is in /usr/lib rather than %{_libdir}

When I try to start lat on x86_64, I get:

$ lat
lat [09776] INFO Starting lat (version 1.2.1.1)

** (lat:9776): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced
from /usr/lib64/lat/lat.exe could not be loaded:
     Assembly:   avahi-sharp    (assemblyref_index=14)
     Version:    1.0.0.0
     Public Key: 4d116c78973743f5
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed
in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the
executing assembly (/usr/lib64/lat).


** (lat:9776): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'avahi-sharp,
Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4d116c78973743f5' or
one of its dependencies.
lat [09776] ERROR Error occured: Could not load file or assembly
'avahi-sharp, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=4d116c78973743f5' or one of its dependencies.
lat [09776] INFO Exiting lat

I can work around this though:

$ MONO_PATH=/usr/lib/mono lat

That works.

So my question is: is my package in error, or is it avahi-sharp? Should
I set $MONO_PATH in /usr/bin/lat?

Paul.

[Brian Pepple]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 08:36 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>  
>  So my question is: is my package in error, or is it avahi-sharp? Should
>  I set $MONO_PATH in /usr/bin/lat? 
I believe Avahi-sharp should be fixed to follow the mono packaging
guideline.  There's been a bug opened on this for a while, but I've been
fairly busy and haven't had any time to look into it.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185692


/B
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[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:10 -0500, Brian Pepple wrote:
>  On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 08:36 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>  > 
>  > So my question is: is my package in error, or is it avahi-sharp? Should
>  > I set $MONO_PATH in /usr/bin/lat?
>  
>  I believe Avahi-sharp should be fixed to follow the mono packaging
>  guideline.  There's been a bug opened on this for a while, but I've been
>  fairly busy and haven't had any time to look into it.
>  
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185692 
I believe Brian's correct.  Looking through that bug, it appears that
avahi-sharp was moved to /usr/lib/ instead of %{_libdir} before mono's
shared dirs were moved to %{_libdir}.  It has not been moved back.  It
looks like there's a short patch and a snippet in the spec file that
need to be reverted in order to fix this.  I'll submit those to the bug
report.

-Toshio