[Mono-list] monolite

Paul paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk
Tue Sep 20 19:03:40 EDT 2005


Hi,

> > Roughly what time (GMT) is the monolite-latest package generated? I'm
> > going to see about adding something to my website about it to avoid the
> > usual "make get-monolite-latest gives version x and the source won't
> > compile because it has version y" question (which has caught me today!)
> 
> Honestly, the best bet is for people to install version N-1 of mono-core
> from rpms and then use that to bootstrap. It is the most reliable system
> to avoid the issue.

That's the way I usually do it. This time, I thought I'd try it as if I
was a user who needed to install from source (say they use Mandriva or
[goodness forbid!] Linspire) for whom there is no rpm available to
install from.

> All of our build machines use rpms to bootstrap rather than monolites.

That is something I can quite understand ;-)

> The monolites production isn't quite as reliable as it could be, which
> is part of the problem.

What's the problem with it?

TTFN

Paul
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