[Mono-list] Beta 2 Yum Repo for Fedora Core 2 Problems

[Duncan Mak]

Ni hao!

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 14:50, Weiqi Gao wrote:
> First of all, thank you for providing the Fedora Core 2 yum repository
> of Mono 1.0 Beta2.  Great job!

Thank you.

> I'm still seeing the
> 
> > Resolving dependencies
> > ......Unable to satisfy dependencies
> > Package winelib needs wine >= 20040505, this is not available.

Sebastian Bergmann reported this problem earlier. I have fixed the conf
files already and I'll just need to rebuild and push out the new
package. I'll do that either tonight, or tomorrow (Monday).

> On a related note, what are the mono-complete and mono-complete-devel
> packages?  Just by looking at the name, I assume they are combination
> packages that can be installed in lieu of some other package.  Am I
> right?

mono-complete and mono-complete-devel are 'meta' packages. If you
install mono-complete, it'll install everything. The same is true for
mono-complete-devel (includes mono-runtime-devel and mono-core-devel)

> Also, what is the extent to which the mysql and postgresql connectors
> are dependent on Wine?  I can live without Wine and WinForms fine, but I
> can't live without database support.

I believe those libraries include WinForms designer support. I'm not
sure though.

Duncan.