mono-extras ( mono(System.Configuration.Install) ) is required by mono-core -- this hardly makes it extras :-)
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mono-core currently incorrectly depends on: mono(System.Configuration.Install) -- mono-extras mono(System.Web) -- mono-web which leaks into most Mono applications (banshee and f-spot in particular). Could this be looked into?
Fixed in rawhide (2.4.2)
This is *not* fixed: observe that mono-core requires mono-web; mono-web requires mono-extras; and mono-extras require mono-winforms. Ergo installing any mono application ends up pulling in mono-winforms, which has led to erroneous conclusions on Linux news sites that our Mono applications are "tainted". $ repoquery --alldeps --whatrequires mono-winforms mono-core-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.i686 mono-extras-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-winforms-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-devel-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-devel-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.i686 bytefx-data-mysql-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-basic-0:2.4.2-3.fc12.x86_64 mono-core-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-ndoc-0:1.3.1-6.fc12.x86_64 mono-tools-0:2.4.2-5.fc12.x86_64 $ repoquery --alldeps --whatrequires mono-extras mono-extras-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-web-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-jscript-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 $ repoquery --alldeps --whatrequires mono-web mono-web-devel-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-core-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.i686 mono-web-devel-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.i686 mono-winforms-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 muine-0:0.8.10-5.fc12.x86_64 mono-web-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-zeroconf-0:0.7.6-9.fc12.x86_64 blam-0:1.8.5-16.fc12.x86_64 mono-core-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64 mono-nunit-0:2.4.2.3-1.fc12.x86_64
OK, I'm using the openSUSE spec file as a reference, and it's clear that we're dumping a lot of binaries and assemblies into -core that has no business being there at all; these in turn causes -core to depend on a lot of extra assemblies. Biggest culprits are files that ought to be in -devel and -web. I've cleaned up the spec a bit. Maintainers, please try and do this: - whenever making major changes, refer to openSUSE spec - keep file listing grouped firstly by category e.g. %{_bindir} wrappers, GACs, manpages, config files - within these categories, sort alphabetically. Makes it *much* easier to see if something is missing or out of place. There's now a new subpackage, -wcf, for the Windows Communication Framework. I'll commit and build a definitive Rawhide build once I've bug-tested the scratch build; please do an update before working on it afterwards. Any thought whether we should push 2.4.2.3 to F-11 as well? It's currently on 2.4. If 2.4.2.3 would require packages to be recompiled (anyone knows), then we'd have to wait until Toshio's ppc64 rebuild has landed.
Built locally and tested; the only thing I cannot break is the tight coupling between mono-web and mono-winforms, which unfortunately does mean that mono-winforms get pulled in by most of our network-enabled Mono apps (F-Spot, Banshee). But it's good enough to yield substantial disk space savings -- I'll blog about it tomorrow. Currently building on Rawhide. Setting this to ON_QA until we decide what to do for F-11.
From discussion in fedora-mono it looks like a rebuild would be safe for F-11, so I'm keeping this open and issue a test build after the mass rebuild.
2.4.2.3 doesn't have (from what I can see) any changed from 2.4 except for the addition of wcf (which was missing from the 2.4.2 release). It should not affect toshio's x86_64 mass build
libgdiplus-2.4.2-3.fc11,mono-2.4.2.3-2.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libgdiplus-2.4.2-3.fc11,mono-2.4.2.3-2.fc11
libgdiplus-2.4.2-3.fc11, mono-2.4.2.3-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update libgdiplus mono'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-9368
libgdiplus-2.4.2-3.fc11, mono-2.4.2.3-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.