Sebastien, Thanks for your help. Reading the source code was a good idea and patching the source code is a better idea. Unfortunately my employer strictly forbids me from looking at the source code for any open source software. This means I can't search the Mono source code for answers to my questions and it most certainly means I cannot offer patches for anything at all. :-(
I tried the -bootstrap option. It's a bit confusing because it says it failed, but then says it succeeded. I confirmed that the assembly is now in Mono's GAC directory. I think it's OK now. ...fingers crossed... C:\program files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2\ucma sdk 2.0\ucmacore\bin>gacutil -i Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration.dll -bootstrap Failure adding assembly Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration.dll to the cache: Strong name cannot be verified for delay-signed assembly(continuing anyway) Installed Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration.dll into the gac (C:\Program Files\Mono-2.8.1\lib\mono\gac) ________________________________ From: Sebastien Pouliot <[email protected]> To: Steve Lessard <[email protected]> Cc: Mono <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, November 24, 2010 11:52:25 AM Subject: Re: [Mono-list] gacing assemblies On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 11:25 -0800, Steve Lessard wrote: > Last night I opened this > bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=655684 because Mono's > gacutil cannot gac delay-signed assemblies. (.NET's gacutil works just > fine with delay-signed assemblies.) This bug in Mono's gacutil is > blocking me so I want to find a workaround. One option in the .NET > world is to use sn.exe -Vr to register the assembly for skipping > strongname validation. Unfortunately Mono's sn.exe tool hasn't > implemented the -Vr feature, though curiously it has implemented the > -Vl and -Vf features both of which only apply to assemblies that have > been registered for skipping strong name validation. This leads me to > believe that there must be some way to manually register an assembly > for skipping strongname validation. No, that was never needed, so it never got fully implemented. Most of the logic exists in StrongNameManager.cs. Patches welcome to complete it. > I know that when .NET's sn.exe registers an assembly for skipping > strongname validation what really happens is a key is created in the > registry, e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StrongName\Verification > \Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration,31BF3856AD364E35. In .NET it is possible > to manually register an assembly for skipping strong name validation > by creating a similar reg key. Does Mono have an analogous way > to manually register an assembly for skipping strongname validation? Try "-bootstrap" on your gacutil command-line (I never tried it myself but it was an easy find by reading the source code ;-) Sebastien
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