[Mono-dev] Building a Mono RPM

[Jonathan Gagnon]

Just remove that line from the spec file.  "Recommends" is not supported in
Fedora.

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Chris Tacke <ctacke at opennetcf.com> wrote:

> Well that seems to have been a huge waste of time.  I built up a Fedora 18
> machine, installed all of the packages necessary for building, pulled the
> source for mono, did a configure, make and a make install.  All went fine.
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> I then tried to use rpmbuild and again, I get the following error (just
> like I did on Ubuntu):****
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> Error: line 51: Unknown tag: Recommends: libgdiplus0 >= 2.6****
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> At this point, should I assume that deploying Mono is best done with a
> tarball instead?****
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> -Chris****
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> *From:* mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com [mailto:
> mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Tacke
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:44 AM
> *To:* mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
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> *Subject:* Re: [Mono-dev] Building a Mono RPM****
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> So as a bit of background, this is what I’m doing.  I am building an
> embedded Linux platform running Wind River, which I believe is Fedora
> based.  The tools for building the OS came on a Ubuntu VM.  I am trying to
> build Mono (succeeded there), and then an installer for Mono so that I can
> install Mono on the embedded device.  I’ll follow that with an installer
> for our application.  I was told that RPM was the mechanism for installing
> packages on Wind River, so I went down that road.****
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> What it sounds like you’re telling me is that for building an RPM package
> for Wind River, I should be using Fedora and no Ubuntu, because Ubuntu has
> outdated RPM infrastructure since it doesn’t use RPM for package management.
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> Is this all correct?****
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> I guess I can build up a Fedora machine to do the work for the installer,
> it just means that now I need two dev OSes to build this target (three if
> you count Windows where we actually do the app development).****
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> Is there any guide or documentation for building a Mono RPM for Fedora?***
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> -Chris****
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> *From:* Rafael Teixeira [mailto:monoman at gmail.com <monoman at gmail.com>]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 27, 2013 6:28 AM
> *To:* Chris Tacke
> *Cc:* mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Mono-dev] Building a Mono RPM****
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> It just sounds strange that you are trying to build an RPM package on a
> system based on DEB packaging, in Ubuntu it would be easier to package a
> .deb package to target Debian-based distros like Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/etc...
> or switch to Fedora as your distro for building and packaging if you are
> targeting the Fedora/Red Hat/Centos/etc... family of distros that use RPM
> files.****
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> You can look at projects of apps that depend on Mono like MonoDevelop(
> http://monodevelop.com/), Banshee (http://banshee.fm/), F-Spot (
> http://f-spot.org/) are packaged for Debian/Ubuntu (not sure they are
> packaged for Fedora/Red Hat nowadays).****
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> Hope it helps,****
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> Rafael Teixeira
> O..:.)oooo****
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> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Chris Tacke <ctacke at opennetcf.com> wrote:
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> Let me preface this with the fact that I’m pretty new to Linux.****
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> I have pulled the Mono source and successfully built it on 32-bit Ubuntu.
> I was able to successfully take the binaries generated from a “make
> install” and copy them to a different Linux distribution and actually run a
> Mono app on that target.  That seems like the wrong way to approach it
> though.  I suspect I should be distributing an RPM file.****
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> So I decided to try to build the RPM file today, and I’m having very
> little success.  The first issue I had was that rpmbuild would give an
> “Unknown command: recommends” error.  So I went into the spec fiel and
> commented that line out, just to see where it went from there.  Now it
> complains that it can’t find mono-3.3.0-tar.bz2.  I can only assume that I
> need to generate this file, but I’m not sure exactly how.  Is there a
> script that will do it, or do I just tar up the installation?****
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> Is there any documentation on how to build an RPM starting with just a
> clean OS build, or at least from a system where Mono has been compiled and
> installed?****
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> -Chris****
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