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USE flag request: support older SDKs in newer dotnetcore-sdk-bin packages #508

Closed fluffynuts closed 2 years ago

fluffynuts commented 2 years ago

To continue to support a dotnet app targeting netcoreapp3.1 with dotnetcore-sdk-bin version 6 seems to be something that requires manual intervention - one can use the bash script from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/scripts if one feels brave enough, with -i /opt/dotnet_core --runtime dotnet -c 3.1, but doing that with the install path somewhere else shows that it installs more than just the required files at /opt/dotnet_core/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/3.1.22 and /opt/dotnet_core/host/fxr/3.1.22 - it also installs the dotnet command and license files.

Of course, I can grab the bits I need manually, but it would be really great if there were USE flags to enable runtimes that can be supported (eg 3.1, which is in LTS). On windows, a user simply downloads the relevant sdk installer and it figures out the bits it needs to put into C:\Program Files\dotnet (the shared & host folders from above)

ngg commented 2 years ago

You can install both the 3.1 and 6.0 slots of the package and it worked for me in similar use cases.

I won't maintain the dev-dotnet/dotnetcore-sdk-bin package anymore, because upstream Gentoo has a "more official" .NET SDK available: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-bin

That package has a different method for working with multiple .NET versions, the dotnet binary only recognizes a single SDK which has the dotnet-symlink USE flag, but other slots can be used with different binaries (dotnet-bin-3.1 for example) Please open a bug report in Gentoo's Bugzilla for that package if there is a use-case for which this is not OK.

fluffynuts commented 2 years ago

thanks (: