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

[River Satya]

ps a new version (4.0.4) just got pushed today, which is great, but it
meant out deployment broke again :( ). I'm really happy to see new versions
getting pushed, but we need to be able to make conscious decisions about
if/when to upgrade.

On 13 November 2015 at 18:16, River Satya <river.satya at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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