[SOLVED] Standard directory to place Mono binaries in

Marcel- · 2014-09-03 20:09:05

I'm planning to publish a PKGBUILD for a Mono program. Unlike Java, there are no package guidelines for Mono applications.

Where should I install a Mono binary? In /usr/share/mono/PROGRAMNAME/?

Last edited by Marcel- (2014-09-06 11:29:36)

Marcel- · 2014-09-03 20:22:57

Follow-up question: if I install the binary file in /usr/bin and give it mode 755, I can just start it using PROGRAMNAME, like described on the Mono wiki page. However, I have to restart systemd-binfmt. Is it okay to do this in an install file, like:

post_install() {
  systemctl restart systemd-binfmt
}

Lone_Wolf · 2014-09-04 10:37:59

bad idea imo.

arch wiki on java wrote:

If the program is meant to be run by the user, write a custom shell script that runs the main jar file. This script should be placed in /usr/bin.

Why don't you use that method , by having a script execute "mono programname" ?

Marcel- · 2014-09-04 13:28:16

Ok, I think that is a better approach, but then the question in my first post remains: where should I place Mono binaries?

Lone_Wolf · 2014-09-05 11:20:15

Marcel-,

answering that question requires an understanding of the directory structure AL uses.
I (and many others) could do that for you, but i feel you'd learn very little that way.

Study https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … _standards thoroughly .
We already stated /usr/bin is not suitable for your package , ask yourself where it would fit best.

edit

Do you live in utrecht or in maarssen ?
(I know a marcel that lives in maarssen).

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Raynman · 2014-09-05 13:08:10

The mono package provides /usr/lib/binfmt.d/mono.conf. That makes it possible to put the binary in /usr/bin with the executable bit set. I don't see why that would be such a bad idea.

You would then need to restart systemd-binfmt once after installing the mono package before you can use this. So the only sensible place for that post_install() would be in the install script for the mono package -- you could open a bug report with this suggestion -- it should not be duplicated in every single package that uses mono.

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Marcel- · 2014-09-05 18:50:27

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Study https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … _standards thoroughly .
We already stated /usr/bin is not suitable for your package , ask yourself where it would fit best.

That page says nothing about Mono binaries, it has a link to the Java Package Guidelines that says one should use /usr/share/java/PROGRAMNAME as a main directory (e.g., for .jar files). Extrapolating from this tells me that Mono binaries should be installed in /usr/share/mono/PROGRAMNAME, with a shell script starting the binary in /usr/bin. Or would using /usr/share/PROGRAMNAME be a better (more general) approach?

On the other hand, that page seems a bit outdated: it says that the AUR cannot not 'read' custom variables, but currently mkaurball uses the builder's instance of Bash to create an .AURINFO file. Moreover, it states that one should build a source tarball using makepkg --source, but that is also deprecated, as the Bash interpreter has been taken away from the AUR.

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Do you live in utrecht or in maarssen ?
(I know a marcel that lives in maarssen).

In Utrecht (City), so I don't think we already know eachother. I don't know many Linux users, anyway, especially no Arch Linux users (it's not that I don't want to, it's just that my evangelizing didn't convince Linux users to switch to Arch).

Awebb · 2014-09-05 22:38:44

Why don't you look at the mono package, look for packages depending on mono and see how it is solved in those PKGBUILDS? Have a look at keepass, boo and log4net.

Marcel- · 2014-09-06 11:23:08

I already thought of that, but didn't know how to find packages that depend on Mono. Of course it's on the right of the screen. Stupid me.

Thanks anyway.

Lone_Wolf · 2014-09-06 13:14:56

Raynman wrote:

The mono package provides /usr/lib/binfmt.d/mono.conf. That makes it possible to put the binary in /usr/bin with the executable bit set. I don't see why that would be such a bad idea.
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replied here : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186693

@ Marcel- :
you read the wiki correctly, the solution i prefer is putting the mono binary in /usr/share/progname .

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