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List:       opensuse-buildservice
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-buildservice] Re: AdrianS , Could you please, set the
From:       Petit Eric <surfzoid () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-09-30 15:05:19
Message-ID: 84776a970909300805x2056109dk4b5f8f1c9a4e47eb () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/9/30 Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>:
> Michal Marek napsal(a):
>> Michal Vyskocil napsal(a):
>>> On Wednesday 30 of September 2009 12:39:15 Michal Marek wrote:
>>>> Petit Eric napsal(a):
>>>>> I forget to ask about RpmSpecManager and SyntaxHighlighting too :-)
>>>>> which are MonoOSC dependency's
>>>> Is there a reason why the packages aren't noarch?
>>>>
>>>> Michal
>>>>
>>> Yes, the reason is the AOT - Ahead Of Time - compile. Explanation from Mono
>>> Packaging Guidelines [1]
>>>
>>> """
>>> The main reason for this is that mono can ahead-of-time compile its assemblies
>>> into ELF shared objects. These AOTs have to exist in the same directory as
>>> their DLL/EXE counterparts otherwise mono cannot use them. Even if we, as
>>> packagers, choose not to create the AOT files when we build the mono rpms, the
>>> system administrator can choose to create them after install. Since there's no
>>> way to place the mono assemblies into an arch independent directory and the
>>> AOTs into arch dependent directories, the whole thing has to go into an arch
>>> dependent tree.
>>> """
>>
>> We have noarch mono packages in Factory. Are these broken then?
>
> BTW, if we install mono assemblies into /usr/lib on all platforms and
> mark the packages noarch, I don't see how that breaks the above
> use-case. /usr/lib cannot be nfs-shared anyway, so there is no problem
> if an admin puts aot-compiled native files there. IMO the policy should
> be changed, there is no win in duplicating the files in /usr/lib and
> /usr/lib64.
yes duplicate isn't a good solution, but Mono like MS .Net work around
GAC, see gacutil :-)
>
> Michal
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