[Mono-list] Access to (recent) older versions of mono in the download.mono-project.com debian repository

[River Satya]

Thanks Timotheus,

To be honest, I'd probably just deploy the pkg file from our own servers
rather than create a repository just for one package. However, this seems
like a bug to me. Why would the mono package maintainers not want to retain
old binaries? I can't imagine disk space is the issue, and it's hard for me
to imagine why else they would not...

Does anyone know why this is the case, and whether it can be changed?

Cheers,

River

On 16 October 2015 at 15:35, Timotheus Pokorra [via Mono] <
ml-node+s1490590n4666765h3 at n4.nabble.com> wrote:

> Hello River,
>
> > We're using Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS.
> >
> > I don't know that the equivalent of versionlock would help, since the
> issue
> > isn't of packages getting upgraded, but that we want deployment to be
> > stable.
> >
> > ie when bringing up a new VM instance, I want to make sure that it has
> the
> > same version of mono as the other VMs.
>
> Looking at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto and
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/92019/how-to-install-specific-ubuntu-packages-with-exact-version
>
> But then I checked
> http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian/pool/main/m/mono/, and
> the version 4.0.3 is actually gone.
> For CentOS, older versions still exist:
> http://download.mono-project.com/repo/centos/m/mono-core/
> Probably a technical reason, a difference how Debian/CentOS deal with
> repositories.
>
> So I guess you need to create your own repository.
> If you want, you can use the LightBuildServer for that, which I wrote:
> http://www.lightbuildserver.org/
> Or you can create a "stable mono" project on OBS, for the version you
> want. for an example see
> https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor/home:tpokorra:mono
>
> Or invest in Debian/Ubuntu so that they make stable releases of Mono
> as part of their distribution.
> I am working on the Fedora/CentOS side on that... Fedora 23 will come
> with Mono 4.0.4!
>
> All the best,
>   Timotheus
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