[Mono-list] Mandrake Package

[Gustavo Ramos]

Hello,

I used Mandrake, and I've kept away from rpms, specially for
fast-changing projects like mono. I used to download the latest
snapshot, the sources of the other packages and build everything:

./configure --prefix=/home/me/mono/install
make; make install
etc.

Needless to say that in my .bash_profile I had

export PATH=/home/me/mono/install/bin:$PATH
export
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/me/mono/install/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
#and
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/me/mono/install/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

And that's all. Any extra required packages were installed in the same
prefix. Notice that I've put the mono paths in before the default paths,
so any duplicated package resolved first to the mono path. Of course,
uninstall anything that could be shoking with mono.

This way you have a safe "sandbox" for mono development, and will avoid
tons of dependencies. If something goes wrong, rm -rf mono/install and
start it over again.

Happily I now have a gentoo distro that keeps all things well updated
(latest versions in general), but keeps a very good stability. Am not
evangelizing, just sharing my experience with this distro (btw, a
drawback is that you'll have to do a lot of things manually). Will see
over time if it all stay smooth.

Regards,

Gustavo

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 15:26, Marcel Pol wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:01:19 -0600
> Mark Gimelfarb <mark@dawebber.com> wrote:
> 
> > I decided to go a bit further and get 0.30.1 working on my MDK9.2 box.
> > Here's the list of packages that I had to install:
> 
> Ok, but the packages you installed are from cooker (10.0 rc1). It's not
> considered a good thing to use them on 9.2. Things tend to break then. That's
> why I provided backported 9.2 packages, and I suggest to use them on 9.2
> instead of the cooker packages.
> Btw, I don't understand why the mandrakeclub lists cooker packages, they
> really shouldn't do that.
> 
> --
> Marcel Pol
> 
> 
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 10:44, Marcel Pol wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:42:05 +1000
> > > Tracy Barlow <tracy@aic.net.au> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Why is there no longer a Mandrake Package (either 9.1 or 9.2),  for 
> > > > release 30 and 30.1
> > > 
> > > There are Mandrake packages. For 10.0 rc1 (cooker) you can get them from
> > > any cooker contrib mirror. 
> > > The 9.2 contrib has packages of 0.26 I believe, and I have backported
> > > 0.31.1 packages for 9.2 in a third-party repository. You can get them
> > > here: http://mirror.brain.org/linux/mpol/mandrake/i586/9.2/
> > > 
> > > I don't know why Ximian doesn't make them, are there any plans from Ximian
> > > to provide Mandrake packages, or do you think my packages are enough
> > > (non-RedCarpet, but urpmi-able). I'm willing to cooperate, but I don't
> > > know what the plans of Ximian are.
> 
> 
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Saludos,

Gustavo Ramos