[Pkg-mono-devel] Packaging for 2.4

[Cambell Prince]

Hi,

Currently we've got a repository for mono2.0 on ubuntu (hardy, intrepid, 
jaunty) at http://packages.palaso.org.  We skipped 2.2, but now we're 
upgrading to 2.4.  I've checked out the latest svn of the packaging, and 
I'm using the mono 2.4 tarball.  Currently we maintain our own 
repository because we want to include a number of our own patches that 
didn't make it in to upstream 2.0, and now we have a few patches that 
didn't make it in to 2.4 that we want included.

Here are a few questions:

- Splitting the build into arch and arch-indep with --disable-mcs-build 
doesn't seem to work because of the dependency on mcs (mscorlib) in the 
building of the mono docs.  A convert.exe is built to process the docs.

- I understand that the cil assemblies can be packaged as architecture 
independent, but what is the motivation for having separate build 
targets?  The separation could be managed when the install targets are 
processed.

- What was the last upstream version that worked with the latest 
packaging form svn?

As this is my first post to the list so here's a brief introduction:

I work at Payap University, Thailand as part of the University's 
Linguistics Institute.  Our software group is called 'palaso' and we 
develop software that is used in minority language communities.  For the 
last 12 months we've been contributing to the mono project in various 
forms, and maintaining mono 2.0 packages for ubuntu on our repository 
http://packages.palaso.org

For more info see:
    http://palaso.org
    http://projects.palaso.org
    http://wesay.org

Regards,
Cambell