On 10/20/12 16:03, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Nigel Taylor:
>
>> The last mono I built was 8 Oct on amd64, 9 Oct on i386, didn't work
>> first time as I recall on amd64, that was using dpb. When I hit a
>> failure, I just use make, once I have finished with the dpb building,
>> which continues from the point of failure, I may have rebooted before
>> running the make. Never hit a mono recently where I couldn't build it,
>> after one or more retries.
>
> Right. Mono has a certain probability of building, i.e., sometimes
> it builds and sometimes it doesn't. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
>
> Previously, when producing amd64 snapshots, I restarted the mono
> build as often as necessary to get it built, but I have stopped
> doing that. Sometimes mono packages will show up in a snapshot,
> but mostly they won't.
>
> Mono is broken. If people need it, they better fix it. Retrying
> builds until one succeeds does not constitute a fix. Build environment
> voodoo (dpb, no dpb, reboot before building) does not constitute a
> fix.
>
I have no interest in mono, I don't install mono on my machines, only
build it because it's there. If it was marked as BROKEN, I wouldn't be
trying to build it, and wouldn't miss it.
