F23 System Wide Change: Mono 4

[Peter Robinson]

>> > as Mono 4 adds support for the ppc64le architecture (and aarch64
>> > support was probably added earlier), we (the Secondary arches team)
>> > would like to see a full bootstrap and subsequent update of %
>> > mono_arches
>> >
>> > For any questions regarding secondary arches, please don't hesitate
>> > to contact us.
>>
>> I have to admit it is quite beyond our abilities to support other
>> architectures. Is that something we can try on copr?
>> Really, at the moment Mono 2.10 is so outdated, our first aim is to
>> get Mono 4 into Fedora, for i386 and x86_64.
>> If other people are interested in more architectures than what copr
>> supports, they are welcome to join the effort.
>
> what we (in secondary arches) primarily need is the decision how to
> proceed - incremental rebuild over 3.4 or complete rebootstrap.
> Naturally we prefer the complete rebootstrap as it allows bringing up
> new arches. And because we are in no way Mono experts, we would
> appreciate the procedure how to do the bootstrap (eg. in form of a
> srpm). If needed we can give you access to the various secondary arch
> machines. Copr can't help here unfortunately.

While it's perfectly acceptable to test in copr the final build
process needs to be 100% completeable in koji and you'll need to
co-ordinate with rel-eng to ensure this is done in a side tag. I
recommend a complete re-bootstrap for simplicity. Please co-ordinate
with me for this.

Peter