[Mono-list] gacing assemblies

[Robert Jordan]

On 24.11.2010 21:26, Steve Lessard wrote:
> Sebastien,
>
> Thanks for your help.  Reading the source code was a good idea and patching the
> source code is a better idea. Unfortunately my employer strictly forbids me from
> looking at the source code for any open source software. This means I can't
> search the Mono source code for answers to my questions and it most certainly
> means I cannot offer patches for anything at all.  :-(

This is really sad :(

Does your employer know that MS' EULA is prohibiting
the redistribution of Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration.dll on
other systems than Win 2003 and Win 2008 Server?

Robert


>
> I tried the -bootstrap option. It's a bit confusing because it says it failed,
> but then says it succeeded. I confirmed that the assembly is now in Mono's GAC
> directory. I think it's OK now.  ...fingers crossed...
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> C:\program files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2\ucma sdk
> 2.0\ucmacore\bin>gacutil -i Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration.dll -bootstrap
> Failure adding assembly Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration.dll to the cache: Strong
> name cannot be verified for delay-signed assembly(continuing anyway)
> Installed Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration.dll into the gac (C:\Program
> Files\Mono-2.8.1\lib\mono\gac)
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> ________________________________
> From: Sebastien Pouliot<sebastien.pouliot at gmail.com>
> To: Steve Lessard<s_lessard at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Mono<Mono-list at lists.ximian.com>
> Sent: Wed, November 24, 2010 11:52:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] gacing assemblies
>
> On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 11:25 -0800, Steve Lessard wrote:
>> Last night I opened this
>> bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655684 because Mono's
>> gacutil cannot gac delay-signed assemblies. (.NET's gacutil works just
>> fine with delay-signed assemblies.) This bug in Mono's gacutil is
>> blocking me so I want to find a workaround. One option in the .NET
>> world is to use sn.exe -Vr to register the assembly for skipping
>> strongname validation. Unfortunately Mono's sn.exe tool hasn't
>> implemented the -Vr feature, though curiously it has implemented the
>> -Vl and -Vf features both of which only apply to assemblies that have
>> been registered for skipping strong name validation. This leads me to
>> believe that there must be some way to manually register an assembly
>> for skipping strongname validation.
>
> No, that was never needed, so it never got fully implemented. Most of
> the logic exists in StrongNameManager.cs. Patches welcome to complete
> it.
>
>> I know that when .NET's sn.exe registers an assembly for skipping
>> strongname validation what really happens is a key is created in the
>> registry, e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StrongName\Verification
>> \Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration,31BF3856AD364E35. In .NET it is possible
>> to manually register an assembly for skipping strong name validation
>> by creating a similar reg key. Does Mono have an analogous way
>> to manually register an assembly for skipping strongname validation?
>
> Try "-bootstrap" on your gacutil command-line (I never tried it myself
> but it was an easy find by reading the source code ;-)
>
> Sebastien
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