I want to thank the mono team for cranking out another release, I look forward to trying it. I would like to install the Fedora Core 3 mono packages using yum, but this seems to be broken. The webpage:
http://www.mono-project.com/downloads/#unstable says: For YUM repository, please use: http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.3/fedora-3-i386/ But that is merely a tease. First of all, it should say archive/1.1.4 instead of 1.1.3, since that is supposedly the version it refers to, but besides that neither the 1.1.3 path nor the 1.1.4 path are valid yum repositories. Secondly, Fedora Core 3 uses yum 2.1 which specifies that this path should exist: http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.4/fedora-3-i386/repodata/repomd.xml but it gives a 404 "file not found" error, meaning no yum 2.1 repository exists here. Assuming that this repository is actually a yum 2.0 repo (which is what FC 1 & 2 used) then this directory should be filled with headers: http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.4/fedora-3-i386/headers but this directory gives me a 403 "forbidden" error, from which I deduce that a yum 2.0 repository was created here, but the permissions on the directory are incorrectly set. So what we have here is a note which points to a broken yum repository of an obselete version of yum containing the wrong version of mono. All in all, not the best situation for the smooth distribution of the latest and greatest version of mono. I'm not sure who's in charge of these repositories, but may I suggest updating the FC3 yum repos to yum 2.1 either by createrepo: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/createrepo-0.4.1-1.noarch.rpm or by yam (which also makes apt repos): http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/ cya, .sig _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
