On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Xavier Lamien
<laxathom(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Toshio Kuratomi
<a.badger(a)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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