Heads up for mono-2.2

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 26 November 2008 at 14:10, James Hubbard wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> <dominik at greysector.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote:
> >> Why does anyone go searching for a srpm?  Everyone has their reasons.
> >> You are assuming that the user has those tools.  What if the user is
> >> on another system or  does not have net connectivity?  I will go back
> >> to older versions of fedora to download srpms.  However, I usually
> >> know the package name.
> >>
> >> I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a
> >> problem.  Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out.  I think
> >> that having packages where there are multiple applications in one rpm
> >> is more of a problem from the end user stand point.
> >
> > You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm -qi.
> 
> The post by Till Maas that I was responding to made that point.  Did
> you miss my point about being on a system that does not have rpm
> installed?  I have frequently downloaded rpms and occasionally srpms
> while using a windows machine.   In many U.S. government facilities,
> it would be impossible to get a linux box onto a network with Internet
> connectivity.  There are corporate networks where it would be
> forbidden to connect a linux system.

But it's fine to connect a Windows box? How idiotic. Anyway, I believe
koji lets you search for rpms and files.

> >> The example that sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm.
> >
> > yum search kdeskd returns no results.
> 
> My mistake.  The package name is kdesdk instead of kdeskd.  There have
> been times when I wanted to install Umbrello only.  Unfortunately, it
> installs all of the kde software development packages such as
> kdevelop.

No, it doesn't:
# yum install /usr/bin/umbrello
...
Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package              Arch        Version          Repository             Size 
================================================================================
Installing:
 kdesdk               x86_64      4.1.2-3.fc9      updates-newkey         6.9 M
Installing for dependencies:
 kdesdk-libs          x86_64      4.1.2-3.fc9      updates-newkey         281 k
 kdesdk-utils         x86_64      4.1.2-3.fc9      updates-newkey         259 k
 perl-XML-DOM         noarch      1.44-4.fc9       fedora                 138 k
 perl-XML-Parser      x86_64      2.36-3.fc9       fedora                 295 k
 perl-XML-RegExp      noarch      0.03-4.fc9       fedora                 8.5 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install      6 Package(s)         
Update       0 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total download size: 7.8 M
Is this ok [y/N]: N
Exiting on user Command
Complete!

Regards,
R.

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